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//
Introduction to 'The Dance Of The Queens':
While sitting outside the Tanners Arms, July 06
The Dance Of The Queens
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Queen Ants, in their thousands,
like a mass of paratroopers swarming
in the air tonight.
Pulling and popping, a liberation;
filling up the skies.
Coming down to land,
then to hurry on the ground
while others, I see, appearing;
to pull their cords to rise;
to out of the light and gone,
then back right in to shine.
To a blinding sunset, background red
without the noise and sirens.
They fly, they dance en masse;
the queens they do tonight.
Like it was their very last
and a single chance, so right.
And if it was, to say they do
I would be so impressed
as for if, of no tomorrow
this dance would surely rest.
Without the regret of going,
to be like these Ants; a day
I will surely be as happy
if I were the same.