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@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 2:11 PM

Michaelmas Day 29th September.
‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas
(Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis 1958)

@michaelcymro.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 2:08 PM

Michaelmas Day 29th September.
Not found mention of Michaelmas or St Michael in his poems, but RS Thomas studied theology at St Michael’s College Llandaff, was later vicar of St Michael’s Manafon, then St Michael’s Eglwysfach. Also he died just 4 days before Michaelmas.
‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas

Text of poem - A Day in Autumn. It will not always be like this, The air windless, a few last Leaves adding their decoration To the trees' shoulders, braiding the cuffs Of the boughs with gold; a bird preening In the lawn's mirror. Having looked up From the day's chores, pause a minute, Let the mind take its photograph Of the bright scene, something to wear Against the heart in the long cold. - RS Thomas
@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 1:52 PM

‘Sea-Watching’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan 1975)

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 4:56 PM

Hello, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet, also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc.
- and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/
please re-post?

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 6:53 AM

‘The Window’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
#yFfenestr
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Text of poem - The Window. Say he is any man anywhere set before the shop window of life, full of comestibles and jewels; to put out his hand is to come up against glass; to break it is to injure himself. Shall he turn poet and acquire them in the imagination, gospeller and extol himself for his abstention from them? What if he is not called? I would put the manufacturers there. Let them see the eyes staring in, be splashed with the blood of the shop-breakers; let them live on the poet's diet, on the pocket-money of the priest. I see the blinds going down in Europe, over the whole world: the rich with everything to sell, the poor with nothing to buy it with.
@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:29 PM

Hello, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet, also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc.
- and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/
please re-post?

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:20 PM

Hello, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet, also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc.
- and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/
please re-post?

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:20 PM

‘Kneeling’ - #RSThomas
(Not That He Brought Flowers - Rupert Hart-Davis 1968)

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:18 PM

@yrieithydd.bsky.social

Diolch, thank you for reposting. If you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet.bsky.social
also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:17 PM

@farsouthproject.bsky.social

Diolch, thank you for reposting. If you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet.bsky.social
also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:16 PM

@winidavies.bsky.social
Diolch am ail-bostio. Os dych chi'n hoffi #RSThomas falle y bydd gyda chi ddiddordeb mewn dilyn y cyfrif Bluesky hwn @RSThomaspoet.bsky.social
hefyd facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- ac mae Cymdeithas y gallwch chi ymuno â hi… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 7:26 AM

Bu farw'r bardd Cymreig #RSThomas #ArYDyddHwn 2000. Dyma deyrnged gan Rowan Williams (noddwr Cymdeithas RS Thomas & ME Eldridge)…

Text of poem - Deathship. (In memory of R. S. Thomas) The last years, words from a window smoothing the sea, the iron back and forth to probe the fugitive wrinkles carving a path down to the lost gate. What hid in the pale clefts till now feels for the light, a soft uncertain lingering as if through stone, through furrows of flint. The tides pressed neat as for an evening out: time to drag down a black boat from the shed, off through the gate, to balance on the slow sea at dark, ready to sail. The smoke will rise, the cloudy pillar wavering across the sky's long page At dawn, somewhere westward, the boat flares in a blaze of crying birds. - Rowan WilliamsA black-and-white close-up portrait of an elderly RS Thomas with tousled white hair and a deeply lined face, wearing a dark coat. He is looking slightly off-camera with a happy expression.
@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 7:24 AM

Hello, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet, also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc.
- and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/
please re-post?

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 7:24 AM

‘In a Country Church’ - #RSThomas
(Song at the Year's Turning, Rupert Hart-Davis 1955)

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 7:15 AM

‘April Song’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Text of poem - April Song. Withdrawing from the present, wandering a past that is alive in books only. In love with women, outlasted by their smiles; the richness of their apparel puts the poor in perspective. The brush dipped in blood and the knife in art have preserved their value. Smouldering times: sacked cities, incinerable hearts, and the fledgling God tipped out of his high nest into the virgin's lap by the incorrigible cuckoo.
@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 7:23 AM

‘Countering’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Text of poem - Countering. Then there is the clock's commentary, the continuing prose that is the under-current of all poetry. We listen to it as, on a desert island, men do to the subdued music of their blood in a shell. Then take my hand that is of the bone the island is made of, and looking at me say what time it is on love's face, for we have no business here other than to disprove certainties the clock knows.
@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 7:24 AM

‘The Porch’ - #RSThomas
(Frequencies, Macmillan 1978)

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 10:20 AM

Diwrnod Owain Glyndŵr
Owain Glyndŵr Day

‘The Rising of Glyndwr’ - #RSThomas
(The Stones of the Field, Druid Press 1946)

Text of poem - The Rising of Glyndwr. Thunder-browed and shaggy-throated All the men were there, And the women with the hair That is the raven's and the rook's despair. Winds awoke, and vixen-footed Firelight prowled the glade; The stars were hooded and the moon afraid To vex the darkness with her yellow braid. Then he spoke, and anger kindled In each brooding eye; Swords and spears accused the sky, The woods resounded with a bitter cry. Beasts gave tongue and barn-owls hooted, Every branch grew loud With the menace of that crowd. That thronged the dark, huge as a thundercloud.Colour photo of the flag of Glyndŵr flying against a partly clouded blue sky.
@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 7:31 AM

‘Strands’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Text of poem - Strands. It was never easy. There was a part of us, trailing uterine memories, would have lapsed back into Eden, the mindless place. There was a part, masochistic, terrifying itself with a possibility - infinite freedom in confrontation with infinite love; the idea of a balance, where we should come to be weighed, lifting horrified eyes to a face that was more than human. And a part amenable to the alternatives: nature, mechanism, evolution, bearers of a torch kindled to illuminate primaeval caves that has become electric, the probing searchlight piercing beyond the galaxies, shocking the manipulator of it with its ability to discover nothing, the ultimate hole the intrepid reason has dug for itself. Must we draw back? Is there a far side to an abyss, and can our wings take us there? Or is man's meaning in the keeping of himself afloat over seventy thousand fathoms, tacking against winds coming from no direction, going in no direction?
@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 7:16 AM

‘Calling’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Text of poem - Calling. The telephone is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We may call everyone up on it but God. To do that is to declare that he is far off. Dialling zero is nothing other than the negation of his presence. So many times I have raised the receiver, listening to that smooth sound that is technology's purring; and the temptation has come to experiment with the code which would put me through to the divine snarl at the perimeter of such tameness.
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