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@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 7:43 AM

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

Text of poem - Looking Glass. There is a game I play with a mirror, approaching it when I am not there, as though to take by surprise the self that is my familiar. It is in vain. Like one eternally in ambush, fast or slow as I may raise my head, it raises its own, catching me in the act, disarming me by acquaintance, looking full into my face as often as I try looking at it askance.
@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:10 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/
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@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:10 PM

‘Pluperfect’ - #RSThomas
(Between Here and Now, Macmillan 1981)

@djp1974.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:02 PM

PLUPERFECT
By #RSThomas

It was because there was nothing to do
that I did it; because silence was golden
I broke it. There was a vacuum
I found myself in, full of echoes
of dead languages. Where to turn
when there are no corners? In curved

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:38 PM

‘Becoming’ - #RSThomas
(The Bread of Truth, Rupert Hart-Davis 1963)

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:18 AM

‘When we are weak…’ - #RSThomas
(from AD in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks 1990)

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:58 AM

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

Text of poem - Questions. She should put off modesty with her shift. Who said that? Should one, then, put off belief with one's collar? The girl enters the bed, enters the man's arms to be clasped between sheets against the un-love that is all around. The priest lies down alone face to face with the darkness that is the nothing from which nothing comes. 'Love' he protests, 'love' in spiritual copulation with a non-body, hearing the echoes dying away, languishing under the owl's curse. What is a bed for? Is there no repose in the small hours? No proofing of sleep's stuff against the fretting of stars, thoughts? Tell me, then, after the night's toil of loving or praying, is there nothing to do but to rise tired and be made away with, yawning, into the day's dream?
@rahlooho.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:44 AM

When We Are Weak by R. S. Thomas po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/10/when...

#RSThomas #WhenWeAreWeak #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #WelshPoetry #BritishPoetry #EuropeanPoetry #20thCenturyPoetry #Faith #Silence

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 9:40 PM

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

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 9:37 PM

‘Rich’ - #RSThomas
(Residues, @BloodaxeBooks 2002)

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:37 AM

@j-lbrbsblogs.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.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:29 AM

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

Text of poem - Retirement. I have crawled out at last far as I dare on to a bough of country that is suspended between sky and sea. From what was I escaping There is a rare peace here, though the aeroplanes buzz me, reminders of that abyss, deeper than sea or sky, civilisation could fall into. Strangers advance, inching their way out, so that the branch bends further away from the scent of the cloud blossom. Must I console myself with reflections? There are times even the mirror is misted as by one breathing over my shoulder. Clinging to my position, witnessing the seasonal migrations, I must try to content myself with the perception that love and truth have no wings, but are resident like me here, practising their sub-song quietly in the face of the bitterest of winters.
@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:24 AM

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

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 9:27 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.socialOct 4, 2026, 9:25 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.socialOct 4, 2026, 7:23 AM

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

Text of poem - Borders Somewhere beyond time's curve civilisation lifted its glass rim. There was a pretence of light for nations to walk by through the dark wood, where history wintered. Following I came to the foretold frontier where with a machine's instinct the guns' nostrils flared at the blooms held out to them by the flower people.
@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:35 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.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:34 PM

‘The Prayer’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan 1975)

@rsthomaspoet.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 12:27 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 30, 2026, 12:27 PM

‘Genealogy’ - #RSThomas
(Tares, Rupert Hart-Davis 1961)