Poems for These Times: 18 – New Year 2024
Benjamin Zepahniah | Faceless
“You have to look beyond the face
to see the person true
Down within my inner space
I am the same as you…”
Poems for These Times: 17
Taras Shevchenko | Calamity Again
“Dear God, calamity again!
It was so peaceful, so serene;
We had just begun to break the chains…”
Poems for These Times: 16
Jane Hirshfield | The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow
“The monk stood by a wheelbarrow, weeping.
God or Buddha nowhere to be seen –
These tears were fully human…”
Poems for These Times: 15
Laurie Lee | Twelfth Night
“No night could be darker than this night, no cold so cold,
as the blood snaps like a wire
and the heart’s sap stills…”
Poems for These Times: A Reflection
Jane Clark and Barbara Vellacott review the poetry series we presented during the Covid-19 lockdown, March – June 2020
Poetry engages the imagination, and can touch us deeply, body and soul; it can bring us to a sense of our common humanity
Poems for These Times: 14
Seamus Heaney | From The Cure at Troy
“… So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here…”