JJJoy Gresham

 

Joy Gresham is strantgely most famous for having been the American that married C.S. Lewis. She was also an award winning poet and this short verse, about the Spanish Civil War, has stayed with me since I first heard it in the original Norman Stone film of 'Shadowlands.'
(With Joss Ackand as Lewis and Claire Bloom as Gresham)

 


Snow in Madrid

Softly so casual
Lovely so light
So light
The cruel sky lets fall something
One does not fight
Men, before perishing, see with unwounded eye for once
A gentle thing fall from the sky.

 

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