T. F. Griffin

Poems from 'The Leveller' by T. F. Griffin

The Funeral

As an evening April sun
Does its dying
Over Riddlesden and Silsden.

The late spring clematis and bluebells
Bring messages of death
And suspend all in grief;

And even before death
There is suspension in sadness;
The sun pours through closed curtains

Like a taunt,
Reminding the griever
Of the swift and swallow,
The need to thrive and survive
In death.
And the love gone and
The flowering of the dancing lady
Are reminders of another evening,

And the beauty of the coming summer rose.

 

Watching Sunset

There is red under
The black clouds
And the sky grows pink;

Where a giant whale forms
Moving through a pink sea;
And from the archipelagos beneath

Which move into blue air,
I see the tiny figure of Newton,

On an island where he sits,
Bowed to the earth,
The reins of his reduction

Firm in his hand.
And while he moves
On a large lattice

The newly emergent stars, patient,
Wait for his glance at the sky.

 

• 'The Leveller' is an A5 (148mm x 210mm) publication.
• 34 pages in total. 
• Soft bound pamphlet with laminated cover.
• £7.45.

 

Authors

T. F. Griffin is the author of “The Leveller” which was published by Flux Gallery Press in 2006. He has been involved in the poetry world since the 1970’s when both Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin assisted in the publication of his early works in several literary magazines. After attending Douglas Dunn’s workshops in Hull he was one of ten poets represented in the Bloodeaxe publication “A Rumoured City Revisited” (1982). T. F. Griffin’s two core books are “Cider Days”, Headland (1990), and “Kavita”, Shoestring Press (2003). T. F. Griffin contributed four poems to and also edited “The Great Refusal”, which was the first anthology of poetry from Flux Gallery Press.