Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill. Because ST. Patricks' Day 🍀🍺

@bookerdana Isn't Welsh close to Ireland?

@Lostpoet So is London but thats a story in itself...There used to be videos of Thomas reading his poems on youtube

@bookerdana I really like Fern Hill. I even tried to do a Utah version of it.


Ay... In the temple's valley Dare we climb ?

We gully kids we had our time
But the rocks and weeds
we scraped our knees
then made scars so deep
They will never fade

It's been ten years since our last try
Remember that time we got that high

And Though it seems
the years have past us by

Tonight I say
we give it another try
Over barns and brooks
our voices shall cry
tonight tonight we will not die

Let's walk again down temple street
where the kateedids and night crawlers meet
and the potatoe bugs
with their thousand tiny feet

Over rocks and lakes
let's cast Our youth !

And drink again
from life's temperate well
And forget that actions
determine heaven or hell

Up through the purple mountains let's climb
let's play again
in dawns golden time

And from the temple's height
we shall look down on dusk's dying light
and not be afraid
to go gently into the grave night.

@bookerdana I like the Hopkins read it. He also reads T.S. Eliot really well.

@Lostpoet You're the poet even if lost or forgotten for every poet is honourable in his craft....you could vocaroo it

@bookerdana I will later.

@Lostpoet Hes got that Richard Burton type voice..Burton was Welsh and loved poetry.....like the IRISH

@Lostpoet I'll look for it!

@bookerdana I'll have to read Burton if I haven't already. James Joyce is one of my favorite authors but I don't think he wrote any poetry.

@bookerdana Are you Irish?

@Lostpoet 💯 Irish American