Best Englyn Poems

Music pumps the hearts in Wales
Choirs singing throughout the vales
Sending joy that never fails.

Penned 21 January 2017


Englyn Milwr   form  3 lines / 7 syllables/ monorhymed...

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I hear you're learning to drive...
                     Straight Ahead, make No U-Turn!
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Waterlilies brighten black
ripples, reeds, and rocks below.
An even flow, bane and blight
recedes to bare raven’s bones.

A grave of darkness blanches
In austere light on bloodless
banks, but blue eyes cannot flood
its once watery coffin.

Dew on the waterlilies
reflect these absurdities -
the woeful bones glistening 
alone near floral beauty.



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I won’t say I’ve always known
but always, something was wrong
defined by a chromosome
defined by what they put on

to be “me” is alien
that’s if they let “me” be me
they say I’m not who I am
they tell me what to believe

imagine not knowing “you”?
no clothes, these are...

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Pungent scent plays on the breeze ~ what a stink!
One I think, makes me sneeze
Gagging with each breath, I wheeze
Because of that moldy cheese!

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Beard or bard? queried chief counsel, The Spit. 
Bared wit: "alike drunkn greif".
Berkspeller loose in the fief!
Beware, none sings from his lIEf......

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Truant night wind sails--its moon without song
I long for rapt, minstrel's tune.
My angst wrapped in cocoon
Angel child ... gone in June.

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At calm dawn I gave you my sunburst day,
heart’s bay shined with bright hue,
for love drizzled colors new
while in your silk sky I flew.
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If you pored over maps, could you find Wales?
“Details,” you say. Perhaps.
Or maybe such glaring gaps
in knowledge presage collapse.


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A good wife is the best treasure to own~
Gemstone none can detest,
A light darkness can't arrest,
Peace she brings none can contest....

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Cherish her land, lovely boy!
Never let them come destroy!
Show the Welsh pride, lovely boy!
Sing aloud your heart and joy!

I met a Bard of ancient time
who sang to me in mystic rhyme
as we climbed the mountain road.
He told me tales from long ago
of hidden dragons far...

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Daffodil of your eye, hiraeth cried

Coracle of the lake

Pili palas on your head

Twelve dwts cwtch buwch goch gota...

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Ecuador 

 I met a girl in Guayaquil it was night
We swam in the Pacific, the strand 
Was white and had upturned boats

I wanted to give her something, but
Had nothing of importance, gave her 
A bottle of after shave lotion

She gave me her address which...

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Tempest of God's clouds
By lightning and floods, storm shrouds.
Contrition saves hawns....

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Gnarled hands stained by carbon seams
Harsh life etched into burning eyes
Yet tenderness turned wood
In delicate designs declaring devotion....

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