Old stories
Blocked up cellarways
memories stored
family homes destroyed
history forgotten.
I and Thou
“This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul’s creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..”
Martin Buber, I and Thou
Alternating Currents
“If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.”
Octavio Paz, Alternating Current
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth ….
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”
Gary Snyder.
International Dylan Thomas Day
Spring orchard
Spring Orchard
Spread winged peacock
Flat still on viburnum
Settled in sunshine.
Call out for genius to sort things!
the work of artists in these times
Voting for War
Voting for war
So they’ve voted for our safety and to go to war
And the dead are walking the land once more
And the dead are standing again at the door
Standing there, looking, waiting once more
They were the ones who went out to the war
Now they are standing waiting for the ones
Who are going where they’d once been
Waiting, waiting for the dead to return once more.
And the dead are standing again at the door
Standing there, looking, waiting once more.
Celfypridd 