Short Wales Poems

cross of blue grey slate
salutes the mountain 
a red kite hovers...

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I’m a Poet…
  —I don’t have to explain

(North Wales Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

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John Trip 'WELCOME TO WALES'

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  || CROESO i GYMRU   ||
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love 
is 
a ghost white ship
drifting
along
the
red cliffs of Wales
while
i 
am still sure...

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the ocean carving ships
where
we 
sail beside jagged rocks
among the white sturdy
Cliffs of Wales...

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oh Lord
what paper moon
that
wants to shine
beyond the gloom
beside
the joyful
red Cliffs of Wales...

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Makama, Funom
a creative, precocious phenom
wrote the Canterbury Tales
whilst on a schoolboy vacation in Wales....

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The primrose and the primula
Are really very simula
But out in Wales
The slugs and snails
Make both of them look grimula...

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the
sweet nightingale
wales
out
a song
upon
the 
highest note
to
sing a little prayer
awaken
the 
stars of heaven
everywhere...

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The Reverend William Greenway
Sailed from Wales to the USA
In Georgia to teach
He spied a ripe peach
And vowed himself wedded that day...

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A pub that's typically Welsh
Has music the English can't squelch
Hymns and arias rule
But, like any gene pool,
The loudest is always a belch!...

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Only cheering when England fails,
thank God I'm not from Scotland or Wales,
in England we cheer on ourselves,
unlike they whom cheer someone else...

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In Llanbadarn-y-garreg, mid-Wales
There lives a preponderance of males
But Saint Padarn's church
Would never besmirch
Recitation of old fairy tails...

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V-ictory
I-s
C-oming
K-eeping
Y-our
W-in
A-glow
L-ike
E-ffulgent
S-tar

Topic: Birthday of Vicky Wales (July 23) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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There was a young lady from Wales
With an eye for bargains and sales
All discounts she would scoff
'til 50 percent off
Then profit from all the resales!...

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A pretty Welsh girl in Caerphilly
Was invited to play ball with Willie
One kick to his ball
Caused Willie to fall
So she thought the game was quite silly!...

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G-low
H-as
A-bated
N-ight
G-ray

W-ith
A-nother
L-ight's
E-arly
S-hine

Topic: Birthday of Ghang C. Wales (September 12)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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V-erse
I-s
C-omposed
K-eeping
Y-ou

W-onderful
A-s
L-ine
E-xpresses
S-weetness

Topic: Birthday of Vicky Wales (July 23) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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the time to go
when price is low
walk in the snow
let the wind blow
to save in in the air
dress like a bear
move like a wales
for those
AFTER HOLIDAY SALES...

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Front-line in depth of mortar
Whistling shells and screams of torture
Blood clot gurgles death bell tolls
Hell of pain in body enthrals
Danger rings apprehension stalls...

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From the first sightings of manatees
grew the legends of mermaids? O, please!
Either eye tests are fails,
or the sailor’s from Wales,
and has spent too much time on the seas....

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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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To wander through  Yorkshire dales
Or wend in watery wooded Wales
Lean into wind of  lowland moors
Or eagle watch on Highland tors
To find my selves again agrin 
In druid sweet perfection fin...

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WALES 1 GERMANY didn’t

The Germans take great pride
In long words measured by the clock
But can they compete when vied
With Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch...

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Houses on parade
Guards to civilisation
A great divide between man and space
Escapism opposed to reality

Sentinels stand at either end of street
Neighbourhood watch
Dangerous tongues gossip
Prepare for another onslaught...

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