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MIST ON THE MENAI

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There's mist on the Menai

There's geese in the sky

There's snow on the Mountains

As the mist rolls on by

It runs from the Swellies

To the Irish Sea

The mist on the Menai

Majestic and free

From the banks of the Briant

To Caernarfon's great ramparts

To the edge of the Llyn

Hear the Waders and Redstarts

There's mist on the Menai

Not a cloud in the sky

There's the scent of the forest

As the mist rolls on by

It runs from the Swellies

To the Irish Sea

The mist on the Menai

Majestic and free

 

(c) Daniel Dwyran

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Jane Bozian

Fri 5th Jan 2018 10:49

So evocative...reminiscent too for me Daniel...

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Harry O'Neill

Tue 9th Jun 2015 20:35

Daniel,
Nice contribution to this weeks`Taffy takeover.

As a wartime evacuee I got my first taste of real countryside around the Menai straits

Why didn`t you do it in quatrain stanzas?

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Tue 9th Jun 2015 09:44

Welcome back D.D! Love this piece.Very airy! x

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John Coopey

Mon 8th Jun 2015 23:42

Very evocative, Daniel. I particularly like the circularity of it.
My own memories aren't quite as attractive. As a 12 year old my cousin and I had gone trainspotting to Holyhead. We got evicted from Llanfair Station by a surly station master where we'd stopped off on the way home cos I needed a poo.
I was desperate but when the train came that he pushed us on it had the old fashioned corridor-less carriages.
I had to do my poo in a plastic bag and chuck it out the window in the tunnel.
Happy days.

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 8th Jun 2015 16:07

I like the short lines - well suited and evocative, with a
rhythm that could be put to music.
Nice one.

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