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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

‘Looking Glass’ - #RSThomas (Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

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Looking Glass.
There is a game I play with a mirror, approaching it when I am not there, as though to take by surprise
the self that is my familiar. It is in vain. Like one eternally in ambush, fast or slow
as I may raise my head, it raises
its own, catching me in the act, disarming me by acquaintance, looking full into my face as often as I try looking at it askance.

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

‘Looking Glass’ - #RSThomas (Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

‘The Small Country’ - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan 1978)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

‘Rich’ - #RSThomas (Residues, @BloodaxeBooks 2002)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hello, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet, also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/ - share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc. - and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/ please re-post?

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘Pluperfect’ - #RSThomas (Between Here and Now, Macmillan 1981)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘Questions’ - #RSThomas (Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

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Questions.
She should put off modesty with her shift. Who said that?
Should one, then, put off belief with one's collar? The girl enters the bed, enters the man's arms to be clasped between sheets against the un-love that is all around.
The priest lies down alone face to face with the darkness that is the nothing from which nothing comes. 'Love' he protests, 'love' in spiritual copulation
with a non-body, hearing the echoes dying away, languishing under the owl's curse.
What is a bed for? Is there no repose in the small hours? No proofing of sleep's stuff against the fretting of stars, thoughts?
Tell me, then, after the night's toil of loving or praying, is there nothing to do but to rise tired and be made away with, yawning, into the day's dream?

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘Becoming’ - #RSThomas (The Bread of Truth, Rupert Hart-Davis 1963)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘When we are weak…’ - #RSThomas (from AD in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks 1990)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

‘The Small Country’ - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan 1978)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‘Retirement’ - #RSThomas (Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986) #Ymddeoliad #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

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Retirement.
I have crawled out at last far as I dare on to a bough of country that is suspended between sky and sea.
From what was I escaping There is a rare peace here, though the aeroplanes buzz me, reminders of that abyss,
deeper than sea or sky, civilisation could fall into. Strangers advance, inching their way out, so that the branch bends
further away from the scent of the cloud blossom. Must I console myself with reflections? There are
times even the mirror
is misted as by one breathing over my shoulder. Clinging to my position, witnessing
the seasonal migrations, I must try to content myself with the perception that love and truth have
no wings, but are resident like me here, practising
their sub-song quietly in the face of the bitterest of winters.

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@j-lbrbsblogs.bsky.social Diolch, thank you for reposting. If you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet.bsky.social also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/ - and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘Kneeling’ - #RSThomas (Not That He Brought Flowers - Rupert Hart-Davis 1968)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘Kneeling’ - #RSThomas (Not That He Brought Flowers - Rupert Hart-Davis 1968)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

‘Borders’ - #RSThomas (Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986) #Gororau #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

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Borders
Somewhere beyond time's curve civilisation lifted its glass rim. There was a pretence of light
for nations to walk by through the dark wood, where history wintered. Following I came to the foretold frontier
where with a machine's instinct the guns' nostrils flared at the blooms held out to them by the flower people.

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘The Prayer’ - #RSThomas (Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan 1975)

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snowded.bsky.social @snowded.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A preliminary announcement of the Cynefin Field Guide, five years in the making and available this month - register via the link. thecynefin.co/five-years-i...

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To live in the wilderness is the beginning of creation R. S. Thomas, in the spirit of his desert theology The Cynefin Field Guide has been in the making

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘The Prayer’ - #RSThomas (Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan 1975)

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Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru @gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mae'n Ddiwrnod Cenedlaethol Barddoniaeth! Dysgwch am un o feirdd mwyaf Cymru gyda'r gyfrol 'R. S. Thomas, Desperado: Cultural Warrior of Wales' gan M. Wynn Thomas a gyhoeddwyd gennym fis diwethaf. 📚️ www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/book/r-s-tho...

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘Genealogy’ - #RSThomas (Tares, Rupert Hart-Davis 1961)

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy National #Poetry Day! Learn more about one of Wales's most revered poets in 'R. S. Thomas, Desperado: Cultural Warrior of Wales' by M. Wynn Thomas. 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/r-s-tho... #NationalPoetryDay

‘M. Wynn Thomas, with his usual
wry wit and poetic perception, walks
the path around the distant and
rugged terrain of R. S. Thomas. This
book is like light through a prism,
the whole spectrum of the poet’s
hints, ambiguities and shards on full
view, and admired with such a
passionate and joyful questioning.
No one reads between R.S.’s lines
with such clarity, and to read this
book is a teasing delight to both the
parched soul and roving mind.’

The Very Revd Mark Oakley,
Dean of Southwark

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‘Genealogy’ - #RSThomas (Tares, Rupert Hart-Davis 1961)

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Arie Sonneveld @ariesonneveld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Een herfstdag, nieuwe vertaling van A Day In Autumn van de Welshe dichter R.S. Thomas. thehiddenlaw.com/2026/09/30/e...

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Een herfstdag, nieuwe vertaling van A Day In Autumn van de Welshe dichter R.S. Thomas.

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michaelmas Day 29th September. ‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas (Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis 1958)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michaelmas Day 29th September. ‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas (Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis 1958)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘Sea-Watching’ - #RSThomas (Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan 1975)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

‘The Window’ - #RSThomas (Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986) #yFfenestr #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

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The Window.
Say he is any man anywhere set before the shop window of life, full of comestibles and jewels; to put out his hand is to come up against glass; to break it is to injure himself.
Shall he turn
poet and acquire them in the imagination, gospeller and extol himself for his abstention from them?
What if he is not called? I would put the manufacturers there. Let them see the eyes staring in, be splashed with the blood of the shop-breakers; let them live on the poet's diet, on the pocket-money of the priest.
I see the blinds
going down in Europe, over the whole world: the rich with everything to sell, the poor with nothing to buy it with.

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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ 🦋 @wjpme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@imcmillan.bsky.social We are at the RS Thomas festival in Eglwysfach, Machynlleth & yesterday went on a lovely walk - one of RS’s - overlooking the beautiful Dyfi estuary. Owen Sheers then gave a wonderful talk on ‘beirdd gwlad’ [folk poets]. One for the Verb maybe? cynefinmusic.wales/en/home-page

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Welsh poet RS Thomas died #OnThisDay in 2000. Here's a tribute by Rowan Williams (patron of the RS Thomas & ME Eldridge Society)…

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Deathship.
(In memory of R. S. Thomas)
The last years, words from a window smoothing the sea, the iron back and forth to probe the fugitive wrinkles carving a path down to the lost gate.
What hid in the pale clefts till now feels for the light, a soft uncertain lingering as if through stone, through furrows of flint.
The tides pressed neat as for an evening out: time to drag down a black boat from the shed, off through the gate, to balance on the slow sea at dark, ready to sail.
The smoke will rise, the cloudy pillar wavering across the sky's long page At dawn, somewhere westward, the boat flares in a blaze of crying birds.
- Rowan Williams

A black-and-white close-up portrait of an elderly RS Thomas with tousled white hair and a deeply lined face, wearing a dark coat. He is looking slightly off-camera with a happy expression.

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bu farw'r bardd Cymreig #RSThomas #ArYDyddHwn 2000. Dyma deyrnged gan Rowan Williams (noddwr Cymdeithas RS Thomas & ME Eldridge)…

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘Kneeling’ - #RSThomas (Not That He Brought Flowers - Rupert Hart-Davis 1968)

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@yrieithydd.bsky.social Diolch, thank you for reposting. If you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet.bsky.social also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/ - and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@farsouthproject.bsky.social Diolch, thank you for reposting. If you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet.bsky.social also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/ - and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@winidavies.bsky.social Diolch am ail-bostio. Os dych chi'n hoffi #RSThomas falle y bydd gyda chi ddiddordeb mewn dilyn y cyfrif Bluesky hwn @RSThomaspoet.bsky.social hefyd facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/ - ac mae Cymdeithas y gallwch chi ymuno â hi… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/

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