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Poetry of Ireland  (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by K E Dennis
on:    8 May 1998

Beckett’s poetry is usually difficult (surprise, surprise), but sometimes - as w/ Roundelay - one can see light...

My own favourite is ‘my way is in the sand flowing’, below.
 

my way is in the sand flowing
Samuel Beckett

Collected Poems in English & French
New York:  Grove/Atlantic, 1977

my way is in the sand flowing
between the shingle and the dune
the summer rain rains on my life
on me my life harrying fleeing
to its beginning to its end

my peace is there in the receding mist
when I may cease from treading these long shifting
                                             thresholds

and live the space of a door
that opens and shuts.


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Questions? Comments? -K. E. Dennis

Poetry of Ireland   (Irish poets writing in English)

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