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Winter 2024, December

Mid month

as a good a time as any other

to write of howling winds that smother

 

Every hint

of comfort and the daily norms

to replace them all with Darragh's storms

 

Which break

the trees which crash and fall upon

wires, and thus: the village power has gone

 

And then

in every room in every country cottage

is darkness from the lack of wattage

 

No h...

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Winter Beach

Remember

The sea assaults

Of winter gales when

Towering spray sheets curl

Over the green-stripe tower

At the harbour mouth

And waves roll shoreward

Beside its jetty

Shingle crashing

Floating spume across the beach

With black stones cold shone by spray

That above the wave thrust

Hides the horizon behind its mist

As the sun shines low

On a December afternoon

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The Land of a Giant

Between the dark Ystwyth and the angry sea

We walked the cold stone beach

From the swirling river mouth

To the striated rocks beneath the southern cliff

Their upended strata pointing the way across Tan y Bwlch

Beyond the town beneath its northern cliffs

 

A Celtic god watches and menaces

Black Lugus on Pen ddinas Maelor:

We brave his fierce storms which shade our day

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