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Reflections on an old copper mining town, the mine long gone...
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This poet grows grey-bearded,
Claws eyes, shuts out Seasons,
Love tales, reasons -
Lies, all lies!
Some long ague descends me
No word mends me
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From a blue cloud at the two o’clock
And out of the rain,
With a long step and a swift nod
The master came.
Swinging behind him a painted ..
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(Letter, 26 June 1983 from C.H. By the time that I add
my sign to this page the pallid sunlight will have dragged
behind the Tree of Birds and sp..
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Life, a Play
In three parts, now
Is two parts done.
In this,
The final interval
We rearrange our scores,
The Orchestra, still poised
Will sit..
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What would you with me
Catherine Gables,
Turn my face
From my winter stables,
Call at the year
That my no-love lies in,
Treat the hurt
And the ..
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‘How much we change...
I well remember when,’
She said -
But that was years before
And now, she’s dead!
Who was she - why,
A..
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The great themes are ended,
Too well and soon,
Not one I mended me
All in my afternoon.
I lay once conjured
In love where she lay,
All thought..
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Each winter the grey-greying streets of Pengellen
Fall silent as dampness creeps in at the hearth,
And miners and men speak in whispers of heaven,
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Another year ended
Over and done,
What have we left of it
Now that it’s gone
-What did we lend it?
Only the tears
Of the last year&rsquo..
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