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
Welsh rill old saw
scissored shades of Betsycoed
taste of yester youth's sweet tones
splashing sound of forest water
kissing shining sacred stones
Dreams of swirling druids dancing
in the faery...
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Categories:
welsh, life, nature, on writing
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Brilliance and MadnessBrilliance 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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Categories:
welsh, celebrity, film, flying, mental
Form:
Clerihew
Leaving WalesWales 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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Categories:
welsh, leaving, longing, love,
Form:
Lyric
Seagulls of Barry IslandThe 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
Burns night - My Toast to the LassiesWell, it’s thanks to my friend, Neillie, that I'm standing here today;
He captured me down at his shop as I reached out to pay.
He said,...
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Categories:
welsh, funny, tribute, women,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
My Shoe CollectionMy 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
ON WINGS OF SONGI 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
Humorous Tribute to Three SoupersJack 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
Daylight RobberyLast 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
Raven's PlightRaven 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
Serenwhat 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
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
The price of coalThe 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
Can i set it Free - 101 words contestECHO OF JAN'S POEM
-----------------------------------------
What is this muse Jan writes about,
I have tried to peek in her cupboard
To let it out.
The lock is on, drat what...
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Categories:
welsh, freedom, muse,
Form:
Rhyme
Shark Soup
Tim had all the necessary ingredients right next to his ancient burner
Shark teeth dangling from a sunken necklace at the cutting edge but
The amulet had...
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Categories:
welsh, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Wasted WordsWASTED WORDS
Lounging near sleep and lingering time
are Eliot, Dylan and I.
We discuss preposterously shaped women
and laugh ‘til our heads roll down
the stairs and onto the...
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Categories:
welsh, imagination, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Your Blue Eyes Where does this come from....
Were we educated at some time
And forgotten...
No.. we weren't....
We were royalty of a kind....
Welsh and proud...
Roman blood we had in...
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Categories:
welsh, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Cafe selectionsFish madam?
Price Edwards a Welsh man taught me how to poach eggs fish and rabbits
The recipe for poached eggs is universal
Poached perch is.....Take...
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Categories:
welsh, funny, social,
Form:
Blank verse
The 'Airs On Me 'EadThe 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
SPRING DANCE
chlorophyll greenery, Spring’s
creamery daffodils chock-full of light.
bees alight; honey wings.
violette clematis rife —
the ribbon wraps ‘round my neighbor’s mailbox.
her preserve rocks wildlife.
the southern cottonwood tree
sheds...
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Categories:
welsh, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
RIP Mark Taff LangleyDevastated at the news I've heard.
Totally shocked this is absurd
The passing of a Welsh legend
Proud to have served my butty friend.
He started his long career
As...
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Categories:
welsh, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
Ash GrovesAsh Groves
“Down yonder green valley where streamlets meander
When twilight is fading I pensively rove,
Or at the bright noontide in solitude wander
Amid the dark...
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Categories:
welsh, family, music,
Form:
Lyric
A Crush, A Love
I met him when so young, a crush, a love
on silky words I hung
they just slid smooth off his tongue
now, a memory among
___________________________
February 17,...
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Categories:
welsh, crush,
Form:
Quatrain