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Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas

I cannot read the word ‘bittersweet’
without thinking of Edward Thomas
and his poems of nature, with death
laced through the weave of words
as a strand of purple in the sheets.
You were long gone when I was born,
taken in the Great War as you were,
yet your bittersweet songs live forever.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, April 20 2021
Prompt: Bittersweet.
Note: Edward Thomas’ poetry deserves to be better known than it is. I challenge anyone to remain unaffected by reading Old Man, just one of his many powerful poems.
{https://www.poetry.com/poem/9870/old-man}
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