Clown in the Moon | Dylan Thomas | An Original Environmentalist?

I thought that I should share with you a poem I picked up in the local library. Clown in the Moon was printed on a freebie postcard from the BBC asking us to vote for our favourite poet. This poem written by Dylan Thomas about the earth and the environment is a very intense and powerful poem.

My tears are like the quiet drift

Of petals from some magic rose;

And all my grief flows from the rift

Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think that, if I touched the earth,

It would crumble;

It is so sad and beautiful,

So tremulously like a dream.

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