Ronald Stuart Thomas Long Poems

• 1. 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
  ...
• 2. Poetry For Supper
  'Listen, now, verse should be as natural
  As the small tuber that feeds on muck
  And grows slowly from obtuse soil
  To the white flower of immortal beauty.'
  ...
• 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. 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
  ...
• 5. The Woman
  So beautiful- God himself quailed
  at her approach: the long body curved
  like the horizon. Why had he made
  her so? How would it be, she said,
  ...
• 6. A Day In Autumn
  It will not always be like this,
  The air windless, a few last
  Leaves adding their decoration
  To the treesâ?? shoulders, braiding the cuffs
  ...
• 7. Death Of A Poet
  Laid now on his smooth bed
  For the last time, watching dully
  Through heavy eyelids the day's colour
  Widow the sky, what can he say
  ...

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