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International Women’s Day at Romanian Cultural Institute London
We celebrate International Women’s Day with a beautiful poem from Fiona Sampson’s ‘The Catch’, a collection of “crystalline poems of beauty and risk” that we look forward to launching tonight. Join us @ RCI London at 7pm!
The Catch
You want – but something
holds you back
(voices in the
undergrowth
the cold shift
of a shadow)
something walks
beside you something
that was always
there a shadow is it
like your skin
and you remember
when you were
a child how each night
shadows met
across the grass
each night they met
to swallow time
the light put out
in each grass stalk
the story broken
that you’d told
yourself as you lay
in the brief
brightness
between the tress.
“On Turning Ten”, a poem by Billy Collins
A poem by Billy Collins, poet laureate of the United States, capturing the ache of loss at the end of childhood. Its title is significant: “On Turning Ten”!
In Or Out Of Water
All the water in the world
However hard it tried,
Could never, never sink a ship
Unless it got inside.
All the hardships of this world,
Might wear you pretty thin,
But they won’t hurt you, one least bit
Unless you let them in.
