Brilliant. Beyond the more well-known And Death Shall Have No Dominion and Do Not Go Gently Into The Night, my personal favorites are: ‘In The Beginning’ the last verse of which goes like this:
In the beginning was the secret brain.
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought
Before the pitch was forking to a sun;
Before the veins were shaking in their sieve,
Blood shot and scattered to the winds of light
The ribbed original of love.
Another one I liked is titled: Twenty-Four Years reproduced here in its entirety:
Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes.
(Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour.
In the groin of the natural doorway I crouched like a tailor
Sewing a shroud for a journey
By the light of the meat-eating sun.
Dressed to die, the sensual strut begun,
With my red veins full of money,
In the final direction of the elementary town
I advance as long as forever is.
The man takes a word and breathes life into it. And then takes a few more, strings them together, and brings you to your knees.
Thank you, Dylan Thomas.
