101 Exiles


Just because we've torn their statues down,
and cast them from their temples,
doesn't for a moment mean the gods are dead.
Land of Ionia, they love you yet,

their spirits still remember you.
When an August morning breaks upon you
a vigour from their lives stabs through your air;
and sometimes an ethereal and youthful form
in swiftest passage, indistinct,

                passes up above your hills.


What is 101 Exiles?

“101 Exiles” is a Ceylon Press "Poetry From The Jungle" podcast that brings together the great poems from the world’s best poets – albeit ones that just failed to make the Top 100 list.