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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 1d

‘The Seasons’ - #RSThomas
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
#Hydref #Autumn
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Text of poem -

Autumn.
Happy the leaves burnishing their own downfall. Life dances upon life's grave.
It is we who inject
sadness into the migrant's cry. We are so long in dying - time granted to discover a purpose in our decay? Could we be cut open, would there be more than the saw's wound, all humanity's rings widening only towards ageing?
To creep in for shelter under the bone's tree is to be charred by time's lightning stroke. The leaves fall variously as do thoughts to reveal the bareness of the mind's landscape
through which we must press on towards the openness of its horizons.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 2d

Early autumn. Manhattan.

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Kate Teltscher @kateteltscher.bsky.social · 4d

The Chinese fan palm and cobra lily by Vishnuprasad from Henry Noltie’s Flora Indica, a masterpiece of botanical-art-historical detective work.
The book accompanies a stunning exhibition at Kew Gardens.
@rbgkew.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social
@sathnam.bsky.social
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 23d

‘The Empty Church’ - #RSThomas
(Frequencies, Macmillan)

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 23d

And R.S. Thomas:
youtu.be/gWwxvsY3GSU?...

The Empty Church

YouTube video by R. S. Thomas - Topic

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 20d

Paradise-Birds, Poems: V. Cyril Scott, composer. Nino Gvetadze, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djsn...

Poems: V. Paradise - Birds

YouTube video by Nino Gvetadze - Topic

www.youtube.com

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 22d

The pain has dulled now, to a long, lingering ache. One observes it clinically at first, but in so doing it transmutes into some submerged longing, one that plumbs the depths of one's entire life and comes up bearing the poet's late fragment—"and did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?"

D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 24d

Lotus Land. Cyril Scott, composer. Cyril Scott, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MLb...

Lotus Land, Op. 47-1

YouTube video by Cyril Scott - Topic

www.youtube.com

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 24d

In the evening the pain returned and one observed as it gathered itself from afar and swelled and rose until it swept and overwhelmed without seemingly cresting. Later, still observing, one began to admire the purity of it, the sheer strength of it, and the presence of something very much like will.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · Sep 17

Gray-breasted Prinia

D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · Sep 17

Spotted Dove
Red-vented Bulbul
Southern Hill Myna
Black-naped Monarch
Jungle Babbler
Common Woodshrike
Jungle Owlet
Puff-throated Babbler
Changeable Hawk-Eagle
Vernal Hanging Parrot
Asian Green Bee-eater
White-browed Bulbul
Plum-headed Parakeet
Ashy Woodswallow
Jerdon’s Bushlark
Indian Peafowl

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · Sep 17

Red-whiskered Bulbul
Asian Koel
White-throated Kingfisher
Rock Pigeon
Asian Palm Swift
Black-rumped Flameback
Spotted Owlet
Jungle Myna
Pied Kingfisher
Brahminy Kite
Shikra
Black-hooded Oriole
Greater racket-tailed Drongo
Pied Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Babbler
Coppersmith Barbet
Eastern Barn Owl

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