Ronald Stuart Thomas History Poems

• 1. A Blackbird Singing
  It seems wrong that out of this bird,
  Black, bold, a suggestion of dark
  Places about it, there yet should come
  Such rich music, as though the notes'
  ...
• 2. Ninetieth Birthday
  You go up the long track
  That will take a car, but is best walked
  On slow foot, noting the lichen
  That writes history on the page
  ...
• 3. A Welsh Testament
  All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter?
  I spoke a tongue that was passed on
  To me in the place I happened to be,
  A place huddled between grey walls
  ...
• 4. Welsh History
  We were a people taut for war; the hills
  Were no harder, the thin grass
  Clothed them more warmly than the coarse
  Shirts our small bones.
  ...
• 5. A Welshman To Any Tourist
  We've nothing vast to offer you, no deserts
  Except the waste of thought
  Forming from mind erosion;
  No canyons where the pterodactyl's wing
  ...
• 6. The Village
  Scarcely a street, too few houses
  To merit the title; just a way between
  The one tavern and the one shop
  That leads nowhere and fails at the top
  ...
• 7. Taliesin
  I have been all men known to history,
  Wondering at the world and at time passing;
  I have seen evil, and the light blessing
  Innocent love under a spring sky.
  ...

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