Work Wales Poems

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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Princess Diana was born in England and died in France.
When she was in a car wreck, she didn't have a chance.
She divorced Prince Charles of...

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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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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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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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High home summer hill

Straining, sucking, sitting

Staring, stopped and stick-

A pit-prop tight and gripped.

The trees across the valley

Much higher than he can go now.

I pant to...

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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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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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