Tag Archives: R.S. Thomas

Poetry-As-Prayer – Calgary Nov. 27th and 28th, 2015

November 6, 2015 – 10:46 pm

                                            Dedication I sing for you. I am made for song. It is my purpose, to invent new music, as a kind of prayer that everything is, a cane tapping, a child running, the […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – T is for Thomas

May 4, 2012 – 4:38 pm

The Belfry I have seen it standing up grey, Gaunt, as though no sunlight Could ever thaw out the music Of its great bell: terrible In its own way, for religion Is like that. There are times When a black frost is upon One’s whole being, and the heart In its bone belfry hangs and […]

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Poetry As A Spiritual Practice – Shadowed By Fear

December 28, 2011 – 9:09 am

What a great adventure I had for almost 5 months from August to December 2011 when I took Peggy Rosenthal’s on-line course sponsored by Image journal – Poetry as a Spiritual Practice. Here below is my response to her assignment  Poems of Loss, Absence, Darkness, and Doubt. The Chandelier Now, I see you. Now I don’t. […]

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