This poem concerns, among other things, such as the ebb and flow of popular resistance, Dylan Thomas as a Welsh poet who lived a life devoted to the truth of the unique ethos of Wales and its over three-million people.
Dylan,
the second wave
The wave floods
The flood recedes
The tide returns
seethe in anger
darkest season
the poet is silenced
Playing, scratching
against the prison walls,
the forgotten takes its
gracious revenge
and laughs last and best.
they will run him from his home
they will silence his intimate words,
his earthly voice & breath
they will no longer hear
his ‘foreign’ words
the others will press to listen
seethe in anger
darkest season
the poet is silenced
a stranger returns
remembered by no one
sleeps among the graves
he is their sublime witness
conjurer of sweet voices
spirits of those loved
He does not care to know
but seeks only to disclose
his fragile words enlighten
seethe in anger
darkest season
the poet is silenced
Playing, scratching
against the prison walls,
the forgotten takes its
gracious revenge
and laughs last and best.
they will run him from his place
they will silence his words,
his gentle voice & breath
they will no longer hear
his ‘foreign’ words
the others will press to listen
seethe in anger
amidst the darkest season
when they try to silence
the truth of the poet
Dylan,
the second wave
The wave floods
The flood recedes
The tide returns
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James Luchte: Philosophy 