I go down.  Rung after rung and still  the oxygen immerses me  the blue light  the clear atoms  of our human air.

I go down.  My flippers cripple me,  I crawl like an insect down the ladder  and there is no one  to tell me when the ocean  will begin.

First the air is blue and then  it is bluer and then green and then  black I am blacking out 

and yet  my mask is powerful  it pumps my blood with power

the sea is another story the sea is not a question of power

I have to learn alone  to turn my body without force  in the deep element.

And now: it is easy to forget  what I came for  among so many who have always  lived here

swaying their crenellated fans  between the reefs  and besides  you breathe differently down here.

I came to explore the wreck.  The words are purposes.  The words are maps.  I came to see the damage that was done  and the treasures that prevail.

I stroke the beam of my lamp  slowly along the flank  of something more permanent  than fish or weed

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/09/sylvia-plath-spoken-word-tulips-bbc/

Sylvia Plath reads "Tulips": A Rare BBC Recording

'Funeral Blues' (De W.H.Auden )- Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston Reading "The Living Daylights" (1): Wherein James Bond falls in love at first sight for a beautiful cellist. 

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Tom Hiddleston Reading The Living Daylights (1)

Mozart - Fantasy No. 3 in D Minor. KV 397

Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager) stars as Jonathan Harker with David Suchet (Poirot) as Dracula in Liz Lochhead's powerful BBC radio adaptation of the classic novel by Bram Stoker. 

When solicitor Jonathan Harker sets off for Transylvania to sell the mysterious Count Dracula a Gothic mansion, his bride-to-be Mina begs him to stay – to no avail. 

But on arrival at Dracula's castle, deep in a black forest surrounded by wolves, Harker wishes he had listened to his fiancée. The Count is welcoming but unnerving, and his castle oppressive. Plagued by nightmares, Harker soon longs to leave... 

Back in Whitby, Mina is increasingly worried. She has heard nothing from Jonathan, and now her sister Lucy – newly engaged to Harker's friend, Dr Seward – is becoming pale and thin. In Seward's lunatic asylum in London, a madman named Renfield babbles about his master who is coming. And as a midnight storm rages, a black ship heads towards the English coast... 

Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's adaptation was first performed on stage in 1985, and this thrilling radio drama was broadcast on the World Service in 2006. Suspenseful, chilling and suffused with dark eroticism, it retains all the eerie dread of Stoker's infamous horror novel. Duration: 2 hrs approx.

Dracula by Bram Stoker, Starring David Suchet and Tom Hiddleston (audiobook extract)

"I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston (originally by Dolly Parton)

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I Will Always Love You

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Tom Hiddleston - Bright Star - (Download our app for more audio!)

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"Words, Wide Night" By Carol Ann Duffy (read By Tom Hiddleston)

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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"This is Tom Hiddleston  – recording poetry for you on Ximalaya.
For thousand of years men and women have tried to condense the experience of being alive into words designed to be read, sung and listened to. This form of profound expression is commonly referred to as poetry.  A poem may mean many different things to many different people. Each individual’s interpretation will depend upon their frame of mind and their experience - how the words make them think or feel. It is timeless, but also of its time and place. Poetry has spanned centuries to inspire and delight, to connect people across time and space, in a shared understanding of the same truths.

Today for Ximalaya FM this is Tom Hiddleston with a selection of 12 poems – by English, American, Scottish, Welsh and Chilean poets. Some are short, some are long, some are written to rhyme, others not, some were penned more than 100 years apart, but each touches on universal themes in life."

0:01:45 "The Mower" by Philip Larkin
0:03:10 "I Am!" by John Clare
0:05:15 "Strawberries" by Edwin Morgan
0:06:54 "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
0:08:34 "And the days are not full enough" by Ezra Pound
0:09:44 "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
0:11:09 "Clenched Soul" by Pablo Neruda
0:12:49 "Words, Wide Night" by Carol Ann Duffy
0:14:14 "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
0:15:49 "Diving into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich
0:20:04 "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
0:29:30 "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas

30 Minutes Of Poetry With Tom Hiddleston  Ximalaya FM Compilation  12 Poems

Ok so it's slightly different from the norm and yes, I know, it's very lovey-shmovey but what the hell...it's got music AND beautiful, classic love poetry so it's all really very cultured!
This was inspired by another project I made for my best friend a while back and it just seemed appropriate, considering it's nearly Valentines Day, to make a full, one-off version!
Oh, and I'd like to add that this is dedicated to my beauteous little niece, Delilah Wren...my precious little ray of sunshine when all else seems grey!
Hope you enjoy...all feedback very much welcome!

30 Minutes Of Poetry With Tom Hiddleston Ximalaya FM Compilation 12 Poems

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