Steve Sneyd
It's All In The Interpretation
| “Nearly all the great poets of this period get their finest effects when they picture the waves red with the blood of their enemies.” Rev. Arthur Wade-Evans (Welsh Language and Literature, p507, 1929, Brittanica.) |
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stumbly scramble down pebble beach slope to put hands in seawater a day of trivial wave near smooth token gesture of touching base to mother ocean the once at least this summer and almost ouch out loud hands are in pink-red rim look further is all along edge of sea if patience to scrabble on on stones not go back up easy way onto prom wide as motorway curves towards an Orme each way would odds are continue algae bloom doubtless whatever effluent in Celtic Sea feeds it wasted on me this info age can’t turn draw back whatever cliché Dark Age veil see use persona of Taliesin down here from Deganwy fresh from mindgaming top official bards into babble blwerm blwerm as wind over clifftop castle roof next dawn still too victory-psyched to sleep and sea red edge to water and know is prophecy battle great slaughter this red edge to sea and only small leap of faith to know for sure is blood of whatever enemies next on king-patron’s hit-list smooth away what scar what danger left behind island dragon-head’s impassive face to this young poet wondering all the same a little quietly climbing down from hall past strong drystone saddle wall to here how wise in longterm perhaps it was to have so clever brilliant precocious giftflowerer to have humiliated mountain-world’s lord’s servants so before his own face at his own great feast but now can promise victory so now is safe to climb again back up sheep scattering face land-roof again |
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