Clown in the Moon- Dylan Thomas

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

Everything Changes- Cicely Herbert

Based on the poem 'Alles wandelt sich' by Bertroit Brecht.

Everything changes. We plant

trees for those born later

but what's happened has happened,

and poisons poured into the seas

cannot be drained out again.

What's happened has happened.

Poisons poured into the seas

cannot be drained out again, but

everything changes. We plant

trees for those born later.

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven- W. B. Yeats

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

PS August

1. Dylan Thomas- Clown In The Moon
www.bbc.co.uk/poetryseason

2. Cicely Herbert- Everything Changes
(Based on Bertroit Brecht's 'Alles Wandelt Sich')

3. W. B. Yeats- He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven
www.readprint.com/work-1582/He-Wishes-For-The-Cloth-Of-Heaven-William-Butler-Yeats

4. Sheenagh Pugh- In The Moment
Taken from Poetry Review volume 98:2 Summer 2009

5. Wendy Cope- The Traditionalist
Taken from Poetry Review volume 98:2 Summer 2009

6. Wendy Cope- The Radical
Taken from Poetry Review volume 98:2 Summer 2009

7. Jo Shapcott- Procedure
Taken from Poetry Review volume 98:2 Summer 2009

8. Charles Evans- Libetto
Taken from Poetry Review volume 98:2 Summer 2009


(Link to the Poetry Society's website is as follows: http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/homepage/
You cannot access the poems from there but it has some interesting stuff as well as a list of all the contributors (to the book Michael read from) and a review of the poems too!)