Rain on Ash Wednesday

At one point this video was made "no longer available" because YoutTube considered my reading of these poems as a possible copyright infringement. Of course, it was not my intention to violate any terms of use; I considered that reading brief excerpts from published material in a public forum was "fair use" allowed by law, rather as if I had read something of this sort in the course of a free public lecture. I am happy that a number of persons listened to it; one person - seemingly an ideologically-biased individual contrary to the poems' spiritual content - posted an obscene comment, which I deleted. Please go read these poems for yourself, if you like.

Two poems for today (Ash Wednesday): the first part of Ash-Wednesday by T.S. Eliot, and Still Falls the Rain by Edith Sitwell.

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• Sitwell
• T.S.Eliot
• Ash
• Wednesday
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• Rain
• Christ
• Cross
• poetry

[MrMaurice1936]

You have read a magnficient poem beautifully drawing out in your voice the anguish and faith in Dame Edith's finest poem, which has yet to be recognized as it should be today.

William Butler Yeats say of Edith Sitwell that her early poems possess a lyricism  of the Renaissance, not often heard since that time.

[LooksAeterna]

Yes, He is being crucified more than ever - still.

[sfnc21]

charming. thoughtful & lovely!

[9macrina9]

beautiful....thank you, Thomas.

[megansspark]

thank you... & your thoughts on rain were quite poetic as well.