Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.
Ted HughesThe Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
Ted HughesIn the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.
Ted HughesThe Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.
Ted Hughes