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George Szirtes

@george_szirtes

Poet and translator, born Budapest 1948. Faber Prize, Eliot Prize etc + some Hungarian, Chinese, US and Romanian ones. Writes in English. FRSL.

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3 weeks ago

Morning song

Such aching after
the unknown that has vanished.
You wake up one day

sensing something lost.
Is it time? Is it daylight?
The birds are singing

out of an ancient
dream older than anything,
more full of singing

and pain, and morning.

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