You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet
Simon ArmitageAnd wonder, dread and war
have lingered in that land
where loss and love in turn
have held the upper hand.
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But it’s kind of unkillable, poetry. It’s our most ancient artform and I think it’s more relevant today than ever, because it’s one person saying what they really believe.
Simon ArmitageOh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.
Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.
Tag: death despair grief depression king-arthur death-wish
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other,
for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.
Tag: hatred consequences karma
God help us both if this is summer.
The sun shines all day and all night
but it has no warmth, no light, no colour.
Tag: from-drawing-the-arctic-circle
...the kind of music that God must hearing, no matter how busy or distracted, because it comes out of hundreds of square Miles of nothingness, out of the emptiness of the hills and the silence of the moors ...
Simon ArmitageI once swallowed my difference without water on an empty stomach.
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