Conwy Castle

15000 English Pounds it cost to
Build this place
Local stones used admirably
King Edward at a pace
Strove to send it skywards
And out into the sea
Many towers and ramparts
Where hearts and souls
Would be

Conwy Bay stretched
All about
Cobbled pathways
True design
This was quite the feat
Extraordinary every line
It must have been majestic
Heart stopping I would say
Standing at the foot
Of the great walls
And across the Bay

Imagining the arrows
The cannon and the shot
Roaring hordes amassing
There must have been a lot
Of Medieval strategists
And marksmen of the time
Staring down as raucous hordes
Did begin to climb

Conwy Town also was walled
And their ghosts possibly
Still quietly frequent the battlements
Where sandstone and limestone be.
It took some four years to build
In 1283
And in 1628 it was sold eventually
For one hundred English Pounds
To one Edward Conwy

What an amazing bargain
For so much he could see
the enemy approaching
Clambering masterfully
Imagine being holed up there
As foreign armies chase
Presumably the sea gulls
Squawking overhead their grace
And even now the spirits dance
Such serpents of a time
Flying every which way.
In a magical paradigm