Below is the contents of 'The Heart Of Poetry: First Journey'. The poems that are available online are in bigger, underlined text. Click on a poem to read it.
Poems...
//A Flock of Birds// Reading Between the Lines// The Gift// A Mother’s Love// Level in My Breeze// My Burning Desires// We’re Going To See Graham Today// Clocks// The Meadow// Evening Stream// Beacons// Unconditional Love// Honey and Vanilla Ballet// Beads// The Photograph// Sitting on the Banks of the Wye// Spritual Princess// Drops of Heaven// Pen Y Fan// Chill// The Wardrobe// Y Mynydd Du// Life Time// To A Pilot Who Guides Me On My Path// First Journey// Floating Feather// Early Morning Caesarian// Mrs Davies// The special effects of flakes// The Welsh Lad of the Mountain// Hush Now. Just Listen.// A Welsh Mountain Kind// Blowing Down The Cwm// Destiny// Drive Your Own Screensaver// Maximus And His Friend// The Dance Of The Queens// 10th of March 2007//
Early Morning Caesarian
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This cold misty Easterly,
And to get anywhere today
I have to slice my way
through the all exhaustive blue.
At five thirty this morning;
a Welsh Mountain that couldn’t lamb;
Dilwyn John of Dan y Greig,
he’s that kind as well;
Unshaven and as wiry
Just as the wool I’m trimming off,
by hand,
cause its really tough:
and with his glasses hanging
he turned and said to me
‘I haven’t slept for three days now
and that bloody fox is taking
quite a few off grass’.
‘I’ve been up to see it’ he said
‘but I cant get close enough’
I guess I should be used to it
as it happens every year’.
‘The woodland I am surrounded by
is not feeding all the cubs’.
And as this lamb presented out the side;
Well! It was as big as the fox itself.
And Mr John he said to me
‘I’m using my home bred tup’
I replied ‘they’re big those mountain rams,
as I saw them at the Vaynor show
a couple of years ago’.
‘Is that your local too’
And ‘Yes! This man replied’
As I could almost guess
that from the very size,
this tup that Mr John is using,
is most likely,
what got him to first prize.

