Sunday 5 June 2011

Sunday Evening Poetry

Nothing says Sunday evening melancholy quite like a Dylan Thomas poem. I have spent most the last week exhausted from lack of sleep and irrationality. I am hoping that the week will start on a fresh note with an ounce of clarity and renewed determination.

In the Beginning by Dylan Thomas

In the beginning was the three-pointed star,
One smile of light across the empty face,
One bough of bone across the rooting air,
The substance forked that marrowed the first sun,
And, burning ciphers on the round of space,
Heaven and hell mixed as they spun.

In the beginning was the pale signature,
Three-syllabled and starry as the smile,
And after came the imprints on the water,
Stamp of the minted face upon the moon;
The blood that touched the crosstree and the grail
Touched the first cloud and left a sign.

In the beginning was the mounting fire
That set alight the weathers from a spark,
A three-eyed, red-eyed spark, blunt as a flower,
Life rose and spouted from the rolling seas,
Burst in the roots, pumped from the earth and rock
The secret oils that drive the grass.

In the beginning was the word, the word
That from the solid bases of the light
Abstracted all the letters of the void;
And from the cloudy bases of the breath
The word flowed up, translating to the heart
First characters of birth and death.

In the beginning was the secret brain.
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought
Before the pitch was forking to a sun;
Before the veins were shaking in their sieve,
Blood shot and scattered to the winds of light
The ribbed original of love.


(I hope for better sleep and more clarity this week, just one night of melancholy before a big week. Photos are linked.)

2 comments:

  1. I love the photos you've chosen to go with. Dylan Thomas is quite wonderful x

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  2. Gorgeous photos. They definitely fit the poem well :)

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