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.
Cold Comfort
16/05/2024 by Pete Hulme
Posted in Poems | Tagged Fyodor Dostoevsky, immortality, Joseph Frank, poetry, reincarnation | Leave a Comment
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