Dark Wales Poems

North Wales
Does it always rain in Wales, or is it about to rain
dark sky over hills and dales, a sprinkle of sheep
abandon farms and ancient...

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A trip to Wales 

I was driving among hillocks; the landscape was green
it was spring and sheep-dipped in coal dust, grazed 
with their offspring
Parked near...

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The iron workers from Wales are slumbering now
They have earned the comfortable rest of the dead, 
For years they got up in the dark and...

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These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my...

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Wales 
 
I used to live in Chester, a beautiful town
and often walked along the Roman wall and, in my mind,
I saw Roman soldiers sitting...

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Ash 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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Wales to me is the land of song 
in eisteddfod tradition. 
Centuries old poetic celeberation
in eisteddfod tradition.

Welsh lore pulled through Dark Ages
in eisteddfod tradition.
With Celtic...

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Wales

Oh, where is the land of mountainous hills 
where sheep ran the vales and men ran the mills.
Where mining was life for all those around,
with...

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Lost my kids once just for a  minute or so in the fair:  needle in haystack.
Busy and purposeful Sunday morning. Fascinating bee hive...

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