Poem a Day

Dark and cheerless is the morning, unaccompanied by thee.

This brought a smile to my face. George Eliot on the 'shifting otherness, phantasmal flux of moments' that is us.

Clear and present: Jephta's daughter onbeing.org/programs/j-estan…

Yeats - 'the blue and the dim and the dark cloths / of night and light and the half light'

Yeats - Where my books go - they 'sing to you in the night'

Ted Hughes - Thrushes - 'more coiled steel than living'

Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes. 'It took the whole of creation / to produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot'

Ted Hughes - Pennines in April. 'Hauling the imagination, carrying the larks upward'

Constancy - Ted Hughes. 'The mini's cloud is a coming and going'.

The Moor - R.S. Thomas. 'Stillness of the heart's passions, that was praise enough'

Rumi - The Guest House. 'Treat each geest honorably'.

Edward Thomas - The Sheiling. 'A land of rocks and trees / nourished on wind and stone'

Lights out - Edward Thomas. 'I have come to the borders of sleep,/ the unfathomable deep / Forest where all must lose / Their way'

Edward Thomas - When first. 'The future and maps / hide something I was waiting for'

Edward Thomas - How at once. #swift #GreatExpectations