I am congnizant of the fact that copyright issues are troublesome on the web. In that in an earlier post I referenced a poem by Philip Larkin I post it here. I do not mean to steal from Mr. Larkin. If you like this go buy one of his books. Or send his estate some cash. Or go buy some other poetry to support that vein of artistic endeavor that provided him his outlet.
This poem seemed very moving to me
The Explosion
On the day of the explosion
Shadows pointed towards the pithead:
In the sun the slagheap slept.
Down the lane came men in pit boots
Coughing oath-edged talk and pipe-smoke
Shouldering off the freshened silence.
One chased after rabbits; lost them;
Came back with a nest of lark's eggs;
Showed them; lodged them in the grasses.
So they passed in beards and moleskins
Fathers brothers nicknames laughter
Through the tall gates standing open.
At noon there came a tremor; cows
Stopped chewing for a second; sun
Scarfed as in a heat-haze dimmed.
The dead go on before us they
Are sitting in God's house in comfort
We shall see them face to face--
Plain as lettering in the chapels
It was said and for a second
Wives saw men of the explosion
Larger than in life they managed--
Gold as on a coin or walking
Somehow from the sun towards them
One showing the eggs unbroken.
Philip Larkin
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