Poem Of The Month: June 2016

For June's Poem of the Month, I have chosen the poem 'The River' by Byron Beynon.It is taken from his collection' Through Ilston Wood'.

THE RIVER

Turner’s eyes would also

have seen this sliding,

muscular power,

the tumbling of light

onto a brassy,

slap of river.

The old and new converge here,

footholds of history,

the arresting mud and the excavating

work which never ends,

but stretches out

glowing with exhaustion.

A shimmering swell

on a journey of great weight,

the onlooking spiral

giddy with reassuring spirit.