LLYN CYNWCH

Where the brown trout and the sea trout

come to feed along the way.

where mountains gaze and touch the sky

every single day

the solitude and  tranquillity

Nature at its best

the tall trees in the local woods

their energy, such zest

for life attracting plants

and wondrous cover everywhere

we amble on the banks

and take in the cool air

the legends  how the faeries

came

their tales of  spells and potencies

ancient as each day is long

the sheep the lambs

our hearts true song

,,

Mingle with the wildness

in the water  yes we know

there be a marble palace

somewhere down below

 

dark woods bursting skywards

creeping wild souls they

spend their lives together

and with . the faery folk they play

the dry stone walls

true barriers

attracting  moss and reed

Jason Cawood,

the corvidae

the solid silvery sheen

a name that brightens and reflects

where the magical

has been

 

Welsh Water from the reservoir

this wholly beautiful place

the air all share

and are aware

where many a wild soul chase

the story of the meadow of the bellringer

we read

and all these spells these wooded dells

where poets doth concede

 

magic from the mountains

from the waterfalls

the lakes

the ancientness that surely blessThe people

and it takes

a silent understanding

of our whereabouts and we

residents of  Dolgellau  and it s surroundings

honourably

 

Love this place  we call home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ten minutes from Dolgellau

Massive Pines

straight to the sky

sharing the light

as we drive by

 

rocks and white water

splash and teem

ancient root stocks

scuff and cream

 

over the bridge

where. The brown trout seemingly

panning

goes   on there

Quietly dreamingly

 

The rush and tumble

now they be

out and about there.

Famously

great excitement

through and through

what we see with our eyes

is true

 

the rough and tumble

The excitement  here

From where I sleep

is really near

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Egged on by monsters

Imagine the feeling
Waking up from a sleep
Tossed into heaps
The egg industry reap
Such squalid intention
Such heartless desire
Little lives lost
In what is a quagmire

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Monday 4/8. Storm Floris

A wet and windy start to Monday

a dankness in the air

the countryside is wringing wet

puddles everywhere

 

drizzling droplets raininess

the ducks I am sure impressed

as light is coming into play

its an enormous test

 

for the window panes and the guttering

tempestuous it be

the hedgerows get a battering

squally and blustery

 

the mountains have gone

just  clouds I see

no outline anymore

cyclonic in a truer sense

and a biting wind feels raw

 

Dolgellau lost in wetness

in drizzle and in spray

it really is a deluge

a real douche of a day.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Faroes salmon

They talk up the word
Ethics on farms
Hundreds of salmon
Let’s sing them psalms
For the dead and the dying
The crippled the rank
Half eaten lice ridden
Drawing a blank
Don’t buy their salmon
Give it a miss
Anything otherwise
Is taking the piss

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Tiny babies and live exports

BRITTANY  ferries

exporting . Babies

imagine the adversity

dairies flog off infants
Live shipments

the violent infamy.

 

adverse terrible  circumstances

pining for their mothers who

struggle in their misery

calamitous it’s true

 

hapless wretched suffering

stricken and accursed they

stolen  from their mother breasts

that my friends it is no way

 

the dairies are obnoxious places

miserable and very vile

and it’s all done for profit

its certainly not

for style.

 

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The clarity of August

So well defined

the clarity of mountains

on the clearest day

August and Dolgellau

sun kissed rocks

and shadows

escarpments ridges who can say

a blue sky

So observable

unmistakably

 

a wondrous field of vision

highlighted glaringly

 

manifesting beauty

the lucidity of soul

A diaphanous disclosure

in its luminary role.

 

Snowdonia

Survives in a spectrum of

brilliance

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Two apples

It’s a bright and clear evening

the bushes are sparkling

sunlit and wonderful

 

i thought that I

would go up to the terrace

and pick me an apple

one with a rosy bloom

 

juicy and sweet

the suns showing off all the tonal frivolity

the town looks resplendent

 

both of them juicy

down to my agility

the grass rather slippery
Its freshness so vital

straight off the tree

cold mountain air

and pent up dew

got my teeth into one of them

only a few

ready to eat

but home grown spectacularly

the boughs quite a view

at least twent apples

waiting to ripen

sucking up all of that mist

from the sky

Building  the minerals

and all that fibre
have

ing them home grown

is the reason why.

 

 

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Cader Idris. And the sky above

The lightest of blues

a halo of glory

caressing our mountain

a wonderful story

 

long before seven

what we could see

was this beautiful shade

clearly a key

to a day of true colour

in these regions our

Eyes are excited

impressionably

 

 

Moelwynion  sadly

bathed in a mist

dark grey quite steely

its hard  to resist

staring

at mountains

For  actually they

are indicative really

about each new day.

 

 

 

635 am  from Awelfa

 

 

 

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Rhinocerus

Their prehistoric calibre
Proves to god most high
That trophy hunting prowess
On it we shan’t deny
The few are losing kudos
The many understand
Murdering the gifted
Will never be see as grand

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Night time approaching Dolgellau

Sunlight swept into

Dolgellau  tonight

emblazoned with golden rays
really a sight

not just for sore eyes

the sleepier ones

a depiction of each frontage

the sunlight stuns

ones senses, to see such a picturesque view

the fae and the mountains

all of it true

a representation of

picture book scenes

as the darkness draws in

it is then,  all the greens

Merge into the background

and hide in  the trees

as  the shadows emerge

and the great night skies seize

control, of the mountain top

angry perhaps

a fading a shading

and the godliest laps

imaginable.

 

 

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Total un fair salmon farming and pilot whale massacres

Farming gods wild creaturesIs arrogance galore
The Faroes think they have got it
All they possess is gore
Beautiful wild pilot whales
Great Families come to see
Their islands and are chopped up
By VIKING mentality
What chance super salmon
No chance at all.

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Awelfa’s front garden

Pretty pink roses

sculptured and true

unbelievable yellows

What can I do

no shade of yellow

might ever have been

 

possible really

out from the green

a tall Gladioli a sword scimitar

bold standing upright

wind swept,  a star

in the making she be

 

marigolds they

leap out of the gravel

and stones it’s their way

of appearing just wild    really

the apple tree

bursts into the sky

through the brambles whose plea

for light and for sunshine

they both,  now share

our garden is beautiful

and the fey know we’re there

there’s a pear in the corner

Crocosmia’s  too

its fluorescent orange

great bunches they do

proliferate strongly

with such subtlety of  beautiful orange

amazingly

 

in the air of the  mountains

where butterflies skim

where all kinds of wild birds

amazingly trim

skirt every which way

the chuffs and the rest

The robins and sparrows
all beautifully dressed

 

 

 

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We are the wild folk

A wild fox is a genius
Waiting to be
Appreciated by us
They born free
Hunters we call ourselves
Crude criminality
Murdering families
With familiarity

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Dolgellau

Walking over the bridge

into Dolgellau

it just feels

like entering a story book

 

somehow it reveals

its history the ancient stones

grey and black they be

and ancientness is all around

time waits for us you  see

 

Eldon square the centre

dogs bark  cheerily

the chemist  too a time warp

of such tranquility

sitting on the pavement

lunch or afternoon tea

again it felt like a transformation

Back in history.

surrounded by the mountains

all levels of green

fir trees standing proudly

As the rocky ridges lean

listen,       all of a sudden

jets swoop extraordinary

pagans calling  jets ablaze

coming in from Anglesey.

 

 

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Triodos Kirsty

 

My change of address

gave me the chance

to meet up with young Kirsty

And my song and dance

she talking me through

how to just change my APP

speaking to me like being in

in a trap

the patience of Jobe

is how  she taught me

wonderfully gifted in diplomacy

 

she must be unpaid

do you all know  how good

how refined this lass is

nothing, really would

phase her

just helping me

she was a dear
Triodos  Kirsty

 

it isn’t

just ethics

its caring and sharing

Helping her manner

seemingly raring

to offer to help me

brilliantly,  she

is a credit to banking

and all of you

 

 

 

Triodos Bank

Deanery Road

Bristol BS115 5AS

 

 

 

 

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The chimney Pots (written from the window at Awelfa)

The chimney pots

became a house

a home for birds

from around these parts

no smoke emitted

a cowl, was fitted

 

dispersing the smoke

who actually fitted?

that old slate roof

 

from
the very strong pots
Facing the gales

more than one

was made in Wales

that chimney pot

Standing on its own

Weeds are growing

 

we know the reason

seeds are sown

in every season

as many  we know are wild wind blown

birds still visit

still sit beside

the pink cracked pots

Somewhere to hide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Autumn day.

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Wallers

Genius of muscle
Energy of soul
Creation of the obvious
Taking on the role
Convivial of consciousness
What good wallers do
Consumers of real character
A picture postcard true.

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Glastonbury

History sits a top of the hill
In the midst of it all a magical spill
Of light offering brightness
A shining in fact
After the climb I just react
To the beauty surrounding us
Heart felt am I
A wondrous creation
Of the earth and the sky

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Bee’s

Bee’s laden down

With pollen galore

hardly able to fly

Making honey  so raw

on the beautiful bushes

Feel the black berries fire

Which , the insects admire

and an odd butterfly

far far from the sky

flits here and there

I just don’t know why

in the suns dying rays

so worthy of praise.

suddenly takes off

and leaps even higher.

 

 

 

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Explore the TOR

When pigeons are playing
Wildness responds
with joy and affection
All those true bonds
Of friendship and caring
High on the TOR
The wondrous reflection
No one dare ignore

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Moelwynion

This evening

just look at the sky

a gorgeous blue

where great rocks lie

the mountain stares back

 

making me

feel wonderful

just to see

its cliff top gradients

its darker side

 

Great conifers

from side to side

in the foreground

Dolgellau sits

 

in the sunlight

thrilled to bits

all that grey stone

all that age

sun kissed  frontages

off the page

 

grassy fields

shadows roam

eyes bewitched

all from my home

Moelwynion stares back

eyes to eye

centuries before

 

we can rely

on other folk

who also see

the bounteous mountain

 

 

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Butterflies and Crocosmia

Butterflies and Crocosmia

Newts  are hiding in the pool

and frogs too kind of croakingly

sing their arias

One and all

sparrow children search for seeds

wherever brambles ply

plantain seed heads stand aloft

Apparently thats why

wildness  looks so beautiful

It’s  actually everywhere

every single place you look

So seasonally aware

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Moelwynion

From my bedroom

Over Yonder

Moelwynion stares at me

a mountainous transfusion

Its how it wants to be

a dark mass staring avidly

at the greenery below

looking down at Dolgellau

buildings dotted

what  a show

windows doors and roof tops
face

 

stones of such an age

surrounded by green farmland

and
Pine trees  off the page

 

Simply amazing tree lined vistas
And sunlit golden vales

Cader Idris smilingly

significantly pales

into a great landscape

of rocky lanes and trails.

Cavorting with the greyer clouds

a dance in time maybe

wherein a light force melodramatically

its the magic  We dream about

into infinity.

 

 

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38 days imagine that

Industrial chicken farms sicken me

Shropshire  one day will

realise it’s madness

so much blood will spill

lots of tiny chickens

given space to be

hatching at an excessive growth

And the vilest purgatory

 

180,000 innocent birds will be

kept in industrial hatcheries

and it’s done unnaturally

from birth to death

38 days

imagine that will you

the money that they are going to make

it is purest travesty

 

what will be a welfare disaster

the stench of kingdom come

180,ooo birds the smell alone

will numb

the senses of the people

unnaturally cruel lives

excessive growth and suffering

nobody survives

this onslaught

from the momentLife is given to

baby chicks we hear their tormented screams

oh yes it’s true

 

industrial sheds, grim awfulness

intensive farming  where

all these innocent life forms

live in such despair

north of blackbrook cottages

and the university

the waterways will suffer
Utter adversity

 

 

 

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Henbane

Henbane thrives on chalk

and sand

and likes the smell of the sea

where Infinity plys

its organic food

on the chalky downs

it can be viewed

 

its stems can grow

to some three foot high

pale green leaves

what soft hair achieves

Saturn so says Culpeper a

weird and magical soul

at play

 

it shows abundance  yes from June

its yellow flowers

its purple line

 

strongly veined

like pendulums

fruits of fire

and dark desire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dolgellau

A pastel blue sky

Moelwynion on high

the white hill

The little white hill

staring down

at Dolgellau

it’s pinnacle beauty

a backdrop of grandness

the town

 

nestled below many listed

dry stone walls

narrow lanes

pretty hills

crowded together

parkland and woods

tight sun kissed roof tops
wrestled and nestled
the river the bridges all good

 

 

 

they guard us They bring us

to glory

cobbles and buildings of stone

all kinds of shops

exciting stops

over the centuries it’s grown

 

puffs of white cloud

drenched in sunlight
a jet steals our tranquility
It’s  engines burstingExplosively noisily

Awelfa’s windows shudderingly pounding

Natives  don’t bother

travellers, well they

hear them above us

it’s a Thursday.

 

 

 

 

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The mindset of the rural craftsman

A Dry stone Waller

standing true

A precise and local art form

View

those local stones
tradition rules

intelligence as culture calls

dressing and placement

working outside

it feels to me

those who confide

Of porosity and lasting power

compression wise

With each passing hour

frost

resistance

too it seems

the builders heartfelt way

redeems

his strength and purpose

naturally

ashlar or rubble

powerfully

Self supported seemingly

alliteration honestly

visually attractive

to the eye

Puzzling  those who  do apply

Their rural crafts and wisdom, they

where plants  thrive

building every day

 

a medium exceptionally

a local craft bound to survive

Rural crafts apparently

use is made conceptually

a living art form standing bold

brought to life  it’s stories told

of igneous rocks  of belching fire

of fields  of stone

yes they do perspire

in Summers heat

in Winters wet

That’s most dry stone wallers

that I have met.

 

 

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Wildlife meadows

I adore  the wildlife meadows

as do the Bee’s that fly

the godly pollinators

up against a toxic sky

China sends its glyphosate

from Bayer’s mindset who

attack the very principle

of life sadly it’s true

 

A great blaze of yellow

and tiny orchids too

such violence thrown into the pot

to cripple and to screw

Habitats of vastness
blooms of true desire

looking from a distance

you can feel that fire

 

hillsides reel as insects

our buzzing creeping stars

many carrying pollen

beware the  horrid  tzars

North Wales  brings its vastness

wildflowers everywhere

red campion and trefoil

and fields just to compare

 

a rarity of reason

Snowdonia the park

Natures is up against it
Where Big Pharma leaves it’s mark.

murdering and weakening

the systems round about

Taking out the birds and the Bees

and leaving us in no doubt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cader Idris

Cader Idris peeps from its missionary high

Shrouded  in mist, with its purposeful eye

Aware of all  history, rugged it be

A great chair of Idris something to see
blood curdling light a dominant force

a giant evokes its historic source

looking down at Dolgellau

a township of soul
where the Welsh people live

and are loved in the role

 

 

observers all wanting

stone walls that be

In an ancient

Embrace

With their true destiny

 

many have climbed And have felt honestly
the paths to the summit
And just being free

Accompanying them

With such beauty and grace

how many of them observantly chase

a rhyme in the making

a magic ascent

Observant  of meter

their spirit  they lent

 

as azure lakes sparkle

and senses proclaim

a mountainous effort an immeasurable

fame

stout boots and souls drenched in muscle and brawn

Those  who sleep in it’s aura

are woken at dawn

 

reciting their stanzas

a madness some say

A wonderful talent

born out of the fey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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