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29th November, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘Post-Script: for Gweno’ by Alun Lewis

Photo of a starling murmuration

In honour of Mick Felton, this week’s Friday Poem is ‘Post-Script: for Gweno’ by Alun Lewis.

Post-Script: for Gweno
If I should go away, 
Beloved, do not say
'He has forgotten me'.
For you abide,
A singing rib within my dreaming side;
You always stay.
And in the mad tormented valley
Where blood and hunger rally
And Death the wild beast is uncaught, untamed,
Our soul withstands the terror
And has it quiet honour
Among the glittering stars your voices named.