Ronald Stuart Thomas Wind Poems

• 1. The Dark Well
  They see you as they see you,
  A poor farmer with no name,
  Ploughing cloudward, sowing the wind
  With squalls of gulls at the day's end.
  ...
• 2. Good
  The old man comes out on the hill
  and looks down to recall earlier days
  in the valley. He sees the stream shine,
  the church stand, hears the litter of
  ...
• 3. A Peasant
  Iago Prytherch his name, though, be it allowed,
  Just an ordinary man of the bald Welsh hills,
  Who pens a few sheep in a gap of cloud.
  Docking mangels, chipping the green skin
  ...
• 4. The Ancients Of The World
  The salmon lying in the depths of Llyn Llifon
  Secretly as a thought in a dark mind,
  Is not so old as the owl of Cwm Cowlyd
  Who tells her sorrow nightly on the wind.
  ...
• 5. 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
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• 6. Night And Morning
  One night of tempest I arose and went
  Along the Menai shore on dreaming bent;
  The wind was strong, and savage swung the tide,
  And the waves blustered on Caernarfon side.
  ...
• 7. Welsh Landscape
  To live in Wales is to be conscious
  At dusk of the spilled blood
  That went into the making of the wild sky,
  Dyeing the immaculate rivers
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