Emilia Clarke from Game Of Thrones has launched a series of celebrity poetry readings for charity.. poems that lift the spirit in these questionable times. The latest is a voice I adore, Andrew Scott, who was 'Hot Priest' in Fleabag.. and equally excellent as Moriarty in the BBC Sherlock series..
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Everything is Going to be All Right
How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.
DerekMahon,from Selected Poems