The Poetry of R.E. Slater: R.E. Slater

"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Friday, November 4, 2011

R.E. Slater - Passage (a poem)

Passage

by R.E. Slater

An hour changed and I with it –

And everything changed and none with it.

I sat alone and contemplated alone,

In the silences of my thoughts and heart,

And felt the heat of suns and noons,

As I watched the days grow long their depths.

Farewell my friend, Farewell I said –

Farewell tomorrow to yesterday’s hours.

For I was sad and yet content,

Filled some with want my discontent,

And filled with nothing but my amusement,

As I watched the days grow long their depths.

For an hour changed and I with it –

And nothing changed and all with it.

- R.E. Slater

The Poetry of R.E. Slater

Friday, November 4, 2011

R.E. Slater - Passage (a poem)

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