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Best Welsh Poems

Below are the all-time best Welsh poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of welsh poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Leaving Wales
Wales to me is her Celtic tribal history,	
Wales to me is walks upon her shores.
Wales to me is her druids, saints, and mystery,	
the soil I...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: welsh, leaving, longing, love,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Brilliance and Madness
Brilliance and Madness

Howard Robard Hughes
Famously rich recluse
Dreams led him to the lap of luxury
Followed by nightmarish mysophobic OCD

Rich playboy aviator Howard Hughes
With movie starlets kept...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: welsh, celebrity, film, flying, mental
Form: Clerihew
Seagulls of Barry Island
The sea gulls down at Barry aren’t your average little pests 
 They think they own the sea side and the all wear hooded vests...

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Categories: welsh, beach, bird, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skylarks Call Across Light of Morning
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Skylarks Call Across Light of Morning

“Skylarks call across morning light”
After cold quiet stills laughter
In the deep shafts...

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Categories: welsh, bird, care, love, morning,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member My Shoe Collection
My Shoe Collection


Shoes

Nice if you have them

Shoes

There is love
There is happiness
When the next path of your journey
You take with shoes on your feet


Shoes

I am coming...

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Categories: welsh, hilarious, imagination, irony, journey,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member On Wings of Song
I fly on wing of song.
Twenty-three miles out of Atlanta
soaring like an eagle traveling from DC
thirty-six thousand miles high
Fly, fly away
Through the blue hues of...

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Categories: welsh, universe,
Form: Imagism
Daylight Robbery
Last night I stole a little - from time.
Don’t worry he’s got plenty on his hands
You could call it daylight robbery, but that wouldn’t be...

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Categories: welsh, fun, light, morning, sun,
Form: Narrative
Humorous Tribute To Three Soupers
Jack the Quatrain King a possible moniker 
When it comes to quatrains, he’s an astonisher
With humor and wit he deliver’s his world view
Unfortunately now, he’s...

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Categories: welsh, humorous, tribute, humor,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Raven's Plight
Raven was Death. She dwelt in death. She lived on death. Ages past, she had worn 
the blue-black, purple, feathers of the raven and dined...

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Categories: welsh, allegory, angst, animals, death,
Form: Narrative
Seren
what am I
who am I
why am I


what am I
I am  a single lass
with a puncheon for poetry
am a receiver of thoughts
brought forth from another's...

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Categories: welsh,
Form: Verse
The Hill Farmer
He tills within the buzzard's flight 

this cruel land he calls his home, 

ewe and wether, milk and bucket, 

broken spirit, ne'er to roam. 

He's...

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Categories: welsh, nature,
Form: Verse
The Price of Coal
The mining villages of Wales
are steeped in history and tales
of sons and fathers, duty-bound
who earned a pittance underground.

For generations miners toiled
with picks and shovels, faces...

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Categories: welsh, courage, work,
Form: Rhyme
The 'Airs On Me 'Ead
The black ones I got from my mother,
The glamourpuss Welsh princess;
The red ones came from my dad,
The freckled Irish redbeard;
The blonde ones were mine as...

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Categories: welsh, age, hair, i am,
Form: Free verse
A Welcome In the Hillside
( Mum pictured in her Welsh costume on St David's Day)

I wrote these words to fit the well known Welsh song melody 'Calon Lan' as...

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Categories: welsh, appreciation,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Free Association Pulsation
Corsican sand
  on the Rio Grande
Simon Bolivar weeps
  the night asleep

Renegade cycles
  hogs gone mild
Gehinnom's Mayor
  Timothy Leary's child

Zebras abound
 ...

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Categories: welsh, angst, confusion, crazy, howl,
Form: Rhyme

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