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

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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

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