Life Wales Poems

where ten 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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Convalesced amongst peaks and valleys,
Verdant and undulating over Afon Ebwy, 
I paid my way through the colliery
With but a baker's dozen of years behind me.

Seduced...

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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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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" castles, castles by galore 
I'd like to be a travelling man
it's a travelling life for me
I'd walk along the Cardiff road...

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born beneath a tangle of stars

cream cry Hamal

blood-warm straw

away in a manger

the whistle of distant collie

 

but all too soon

a frosty breeze chews the nostrils

the...

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He never once mentioned the pressure of his blood
or his Mam
I found dead on the floor

his Dad’s cancer
or his younger brother
not once, during the best...

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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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~Diana, Princess Of Wales~
(Senryu)


The Princess of Wales 
was beautiful and kind, Queen
of Hearts forever


Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2007



April.22.2016


~Author's Notes:

Senryu (also called human haiku) is an unrhymed...

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Not born of fault but
purely down to chance
Each personal plight
leads troublesome dance

External factors
genes lifestyle and age
Start this desperate
denial why me stage

Physical, mental
emotional state
Well being affects
all...

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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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I knock back whiskey, you’re taken away
No more pounding hate games and left for dead
Despicable games you hurtfully play
Withdrawn, forbidden, bruised – discarded

At last truth...

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She has a voice of the angels
She has a heart that touches my soul
She may seem heavenly to you
In solitude, she paints visions of beauty...

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Come dance in the waters
that summer has warmed
amidst the froth of the seas
Hear the sighs that echo from tides
as the crescents ripple in breeze
 
Join...

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Galloway


Couldn’t sleep last night 
I lay wide awake
I’m worried for a  green eyes friend 
She got big decision to make 

Got a personal crisis
She’s...

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