#tom hirons

[allthatglittersisnotgoldrush]

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

[prettyawfuldreamsequence]

Sometimes a Wild God (read by the author)

[rainbowhyperfixation]

Michael Sheen reading poetry, along with other poets chosen by him, from bbc radio today

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Michael Sheen

Actor Michael Sheen makes his selection of poems.

[bearspeaks]

Apparently it's World Poetry Day. This is what I was working on this morning. I think it’s got a way to go yet, but it’s got something. And it’s true.

Keep writing, keep reading. Keep buying poetry and keeping poets alive.

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Here in the calendar’s dark days, I can only sing my strange songs Of love and my faith in the tides, The way the year sweeps us back And over, rolling us through Time’s Underbelly and all the high Heavens. Whatever delight or despair crashes Through this tired heart, I’ll sing it now.

Tom Hirons, "The Secret Sun" (excerpt)

[poem-today]

A poem by Tom Hirons

Blackbird

All night long the world burns, and still – on this March morning – a blackbird with its beak full of moss and straw rests on my balcony rail and catches my eye before it moves on.

Optimism has no attraction to me and I’m well-known for telling bad news loudly, but the truth is, I’ll give up my own wild hope only when the last blackbird on Earth stops building its nest in the Spring.

Tom Hirons

More poems by Tom Hirons are available through his website.

© Tom Hirons

[litandlifequotes]

Life leans towards living And, while death claims all things at the end, There were such precious times between, In which everything was radiant And we loved, again, this world.

"In The Meantime" by Tom Hirons