“Folk Tale” - R.S. Thomas The poem “Folk Tale” first landed in my consciousness thanks to a sermon – a good one – I heard in Los Angeles sometime in 2013. The sermon might have been about prayer or perhaps something else, but the preacher pointed to the image of the poet here, tossing his pebbles up toward an apparently imperviable window, to describe what it can feel like to pray.
prayers like gravel flung at the sky
prayers like gravel flung at the sky
prayers like gravel flung at the sky
“Folk Tale” - R.S. Thomas The poem “Folk Tale” first landed in my consciousness thanks to a sermon – a good one – I heard in Los Angeles sometime in 2013. The sermon might have been about prayer or perhaps something else, but the preacher pointed to the image of the poet here, tossing his pebbles up toward an apparently imperviable window, to describe what it can feel like to pray.