Welcome to my poetry reading of The Bright Field by R.S. Thomas.
About The Bright Field by Welsh Poet R.S. Thomas
R.S. Thomas Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._S._Thomas
Words to The Bright Field by R.S. Thomas
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the
pearl of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.