History Wales Poems

where the arches span time
across the ceiriog valley  
sheep graze in green pastures
'neath a welsh / english sky

while the narrowboats above
steer the canal of...

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Growing up in a mining town was great
playing on the coal tips
Coming home black as the firegrate
But everything was dusty from the pits
The black mountains...

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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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Wales to me is the strangeness of mountains,
for where I live is as flat as flat.
Wales to me is the singing in unison -
those choirs......

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This rusting chain is witness to an age
When slate was quarried from these ancient cliffs
And where one hundred quarrymen earned a wage.
This harbour, filled with...

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The aromas of luxurious greens adorned the ruin

And wandering up the stairs had intense feelings

Chills and goosebumps and Erector Pelli presented

The closer the emerging, the...

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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...

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I was drinking beer with a tear in my eye,
The night I learned about Lady Di.
I’m one of those Americans who despise royalty;
But something about...

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Don’t Get Caught
Games of yester’s  busy bees
Flattened farthins off the tram track
Ticklin trout and snarin rabbit
Sailing stick boats in the gutter
Stealing one stop rides...

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