Best Englyn Poems

Syllables 
10-Wooden basket with swinging handle
7-Bouquet blossoms smells budding
7-Olfactory joy buzzing

If anyone is knowledgable of this type of poem let me know if I got it right.
It is a little tricky....

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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.



Written...

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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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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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The fabulous red kite - broad wings, mighty,
Built to soar, beauteous sight !
Red tail forked, in rooftop flight,
Silently swoops for the fight....

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Smiley full lips,
silky smooth,
luscious and glistening,
juicy and glossy,
pouting and alluring,
succulent and irresistable,
sweet, sexy and heavenly,
that's me and my lips....

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Shielded, his logic affects distrust - chill resolve
Mine scatters like dust, dissolves
His lust for my mind absolves
Allows this love to evolve....

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Jimi's groovy guitar leaps
Psychedelic anthem beats
Certainly a broader reach
Than what banal mainstreams seek

Janis sang in passion rough
Too much for the upper crust
Voice of insistence and rush
Love songs with a gritty touch

Jim's strange Doors opened destined
Music of scant time's lessons
Fallen stars burn in legend
Breathless at twenty-seven

5/24/20...

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He plows his harrowed fields—visions grand!
Lushly, planned, large yeilds;
Bugs frantically seeking shields
As farmers plant the hayfields.

Ó November 15, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen...

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