Gaabriel Becket


 

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No disrespect to R.S. Thomas, greatest poet in the English language, but....

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By: gaabi
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- I love Harri Webb:

R.S. Thomas' glorious Welsh Landscape
http://www.rhiw.com/pobol/R_S_Thomas_2.htm

and

Harri Webb
Ianto Rhydderch, Tch Tch :

One day while I was docking swedes
With a slow moronic grin
And all my ancestors misdeeds
Wrought their sour death within.

Suddenly there came into view
A figure gaunt and tall.
He said, Forgive me naming you.
I made no sound at all.

He carried on at tedious length
About my life so grim,
It took all my idiot peasant strength
To be polite to him.

At last he ceased and strode away,
The cold Welsh rain came down,
In puddles in that barren clay
I watched my country drown.

Then, indistinguishable from mud,
I started my old car,
The sickness of my tainted blood
Inclined me to a jar.

And oh what festering itch of sin
Brought this damp thought to me
As I fuddled in a squalid inn:
Un baint much help to we.

Ceri Shaw
09/17/12 10:37:49AM @ceri-shaw:

A blast from the past


gaabi
11/11/10 11:20:06PM @gaabi:
There are so many wonderful lines in that, "It took all my idiot peasant strengthTo be polite to him." and "indistinguishable from mud,I started my old car,The sickness of my tainted blood Inclined me to a jar.."I just love the sly humor in that, and the denial of all awful seriousness.
Zoe Brigley Thompson
11/11/10 09:42:01PM @zoe-brigley-thompson:
This is hilarious in the context of R.S.!