What sort of bestower ??P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
Sent: 16 January 2014 07:25
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Subject: Re: 'My last poem'
But you do conceive of a bestower or bestowers?
Bill
> On 16 Jan 2014, at 9:38 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> the thing is, I don't believe in an invisible etc !
>
> Max
>
>> On 16/01/2014, at 9:17 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>
>> May the invisible one continue to bestow some more light yet, Max.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>> On 15 Jan 2014, at 9:31 pm, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> My last poem
>>>
>>> will range back to times in my past
>>> when I paused as things happened
>>>
>>> unearned but beyond valuing - gifts from some invisible bestower
>>>
>>> usually outdoors - the sun rose
>>> presenting its familiar surprise
>>>
>>> or later the sky changed from overcast to clear - maybe the clouds
>>> were resting
>>>
>>> above land to the east in a curve like the bay's so the westering
>>> sun made gold over
>>>
>>> the green slopes behind us and made of the sea itself gold-tipped
>>> waves
>>>
>>> nudging one another our way.
>>> You'd be on the beach with me,
>>>
>>> dearest, and your favourite birds
>>> nearby as if making gifts
>>>
>>> of themselves to you.
>>> Sharing was what we were doing,
>>>
>>> and there seemed no end to it,
>>> though there would be, darkness
>>>
>>> coming on, no knowing when
>>> but not yet, not quite yet.
>
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