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Llyfnant

Under the yellow-green of sunlit beech

between banks of bluebells' hazy blue

where supple crosiers of new fern reach             

over verdant moss still damp with dew

a grassy lane runs beside the river

 

In the mystic quiet of a leafy dome

of grey bark ash, beech and mighty oak

a far cuckoo calls the dryads home

but we pass unseen by woodland folk

'til tylwyth teg w...

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Llyfnant Valley   rivers   streams   waterfalls   trees   woods   oak   ash   beech   fairies   tylwyth teg   moss   folklore   mythology

The Land of a Giant

Between the dark Ystwyth and the angry sea

We walked the cold stone beach

From the swirling river mouth

To the striated rocks beneath the southern cliff

Their upended strata pointing the way across Tan y Bwlch

Beyond the town beneath its northern cliffs

 

A Celtic god watches and menaces

Black Lugus on Pen ddinas Maelor:

We brave his fierce storms which shade our day

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beach   sea   storm   waves   flotsam   mythology   history   Celts   Ceredigion   River Ystwyth   Pen Dinas Maelor   Pen y Dinas   Tan Y Bwlch   cliffs   Lugus   Maelor Gawr   Lleu Llaw Gyffes

Prometheus Redux

Semper animus libera

 

PROMETHEUS:

O Thou that watches over all

And marks the good in man

Unnamed Godhead of all the thronging spirits

Who guard thy mortal worlds -

When skies darken and the plunging waves roil through

When the mountains themselves spit ruddy fire

And melt into valleys or crash steaming into the ocean deeps -

To keep thy people safe in those mortal li...

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Demogorgan   faith   Jupiter   mythology   Myths   old myths   praise   priests   Prometheus   religion

RETROSPECTIVE

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Innocent

     he met a force

Untried

            it held him

 

 

... and wonder drained the world of substance

            re-arranged the pages of his book to give more radiant a reading.

                                                           

The light of new possibilities

pressed down on time.

The girl sang to him "You can hear the boats go by". He

l...

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Autobiography   Ceredigion   commitment   family   farm   joy   life   love   marriage   memories   mythology   navigation   oceans   sea   travel   Wales   long poems

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