2022 Advent 1:
Tag: Poetry
NHS GM
Not here the guns and bayonets, the barbed and twisted wire; the trenches and the foxholes, the bombs and bloody mire. This is another battle with harbingers of death and regiments are fighting with every living breath. For everyone’s a hero who has served and played their part, the front line and the rearguard, with mind and soul and heart. Yet, though they’ve been applauded and we have stood in awe, crisis followed crisis ... how could they take much more? But, from new depths of duty, compassion found a way and hope shone through the rainbow as night gave way to day. Our Majesty now takes the lead and with her we confess our deepest debt of gratitude to our great NHS.
(c) 2021 Graham Oakes
Response to ‘The Other’ by RS Thomas
As part of the RS Thomas Poetry Appreciation Group we have been asked to write a poem in response to one of his … this is my first attempt which I posted to the group today … you can find his poem on the Intranet … it’s a beautiful read.
There is a wakefulness that is not bound by the margins of sleep; an awareness that is constant and alive. Alive to all there is in the infinity and eternity of being. We could not bear it. Only One who has borne our weakness and broken our chains hears and listens, watches and sees, across the ocean that separates and calls us home.