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Facing Uncertain Death (7/42): Try the Emptiness

The next new poem coming up tomorrow has echoes of this poem in it.

Mystic Manqué

The picture is Rummage, 1941 by Mark Tobey (see Mark Tobey/Art and Belief by Arthur Dahl et al published by George Ronald for more information)

Given that the recent sequence on veils, words and values focused at some length on R. S. Thomas’s struggles to access God, reposting this poem that touches on a similar idea seemed worthwhile. My new poem posted last Monday was triggered by Thomas’s later poems.

The Closest We Can Reach

Given that the recent sequence on veils, words and values focused at some length on R. S. Thomas’s struggles to access God, reposting this poem that touches on a similar idea seemed worthwhile. My new poem posted last Monday was triggered by Thomas’s later poems.

The original Spanish is in the fourth post of the Machado sequence. For the source of the edited image, see link.

Cold Comfort

Given that the recent sequence on veils, words and values focused at some length on R. S. Thomas’s struggles to access God, reposting this poem that touches on a similar idea seemed worthwhile. My new poem posted last Monday was triggered by Thomas’s later poems.

Shackled

Given that the recent sequence on veils, words and values focused at some length on R. S. Thomas’s struggles to access God, reposting this poem that touches on a similar idea seemed worthwhile. My new poem posted last Monday was triggered by Thomas’s later poems.