Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Was There A Time

Dylan Thomas



Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles
In children's circuses could stay their troubles?
There was a time they could cry over books,
But time has set its maggot on their track.
Under the arc of the sky they are unsafe.
What's never known is safest in this life.
Under the skysigns they who have no arms
Have cleanest hands, and, as the heartless ghost
Alone's unhurt, so the blind man sees best.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Hello and thank you for reminding me to read Dylan Thomas again. I've recently made a return to reading poetry...it is so incredibly fulfilling. Read a lot of e.e. cummings yesterday. I'm trying to pick a poet per day and read at least a couple of their poems.

Very best,
P.S.

Sherry Pasquarello said...

hi. i'm glad you liked my choice. i've been struggling thru a nasty bout of writer's block and so i felt i could at least post more of the poems of others that i enjoy, hoping that others might like them as well.

Unknown said...

Don't feel bad about your writer's block. In my case, the writer's block is...uh...permanent. ;-)

Sherry Pasquarello said...

i'm chipping away at mine but it's tedious and frustrating and truthfully,for the 1st time, scary.