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BRYN

Bryn does not care

Whether it is ice or storm.

It does not care which angry voice

Strides the world to call for war.

It rises as it always has

Making a horizon towards heaven,

Feeling the deep, slow pulse of the seasons

That is the heartbeat of the earth.

Feeling the downward blessings of rain

That trickles its poetry through

Heather root and bracken arch.

Bryn, that is no name at all.

Singing itself to itself.

The throne, the Elders, the Hosts,

The shining voice, itself to itself.

Holding its counsel, abiding in silence,

Resting alone. An island above the mists,

Above the green glow, moving the stars

And giving each its shelter

In its own dark womb.

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Pirate jay swings high through his dark wood,

Eye on falling gold.

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Day gives out early now, evening inks the cooling world.

The sun is warm, but shadows cool the slowing sap.

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What have we omitted in the long summer days?

What remains undone? What forgotten?

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Late roses fall, beans fatten.

Soon the frosts come, green pushing faint and failing.

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Gather in now, and wait for winter.

Inevitable increments, time winds it all up.

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Pirate jay, his eye accomplished,

Swings round the rolling decks of weather.

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The hills crowd darker dressed in cloud,

The woods velvet coal, a dreaming nest.

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IN THE TEETH OF WINTER.

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The sun, it is hanging in the holly.

It is tangled in the oak tree.

It feeds what creatures it might.

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The year, made of fruits, made of blossoms,

Is yet a cauldron of melting snow,

Barely born, barely breathing.

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Kindled and crackling, the day spits shadows.

We are all storytellers when we can do little else.

Telling of deceit and guile,

And how the great sun could be brought so low,

Our saviour bound, hostaged.

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A song to return our hopes.

A song to fend off darkness.

A song to teach the children

That all is not lost.

Though we fear it is.

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The minutes crack open and bleed cold.

Breath is chapped and hesitant in semi-quavers, a minor key.

The hawk is ice that hunts unrepentant the mountain heights.

Slay complacent warmth, the fickle needs of small hearts.

The flutter of joy, cackle of crow.

A silent field: whiteness extends to the very mists of deep mind.

Carved walls at the edges of space, words written there:

We are extinguished and free.

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THEIR NAMES

Their names are the doors they wait behind.

Dreaming, dreaming, they thus dream us.

A silver moon scythes the snow fruit that admits us.

Timeless is the round dance of breath.

There is constant war in heaven, and hunting,

And fast, hot seduction.

How else, otherwise, could it be here?

The stars pour themselves into the hills.

There will be ice upon the marshes.

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MOON DISC WORDS

Winter moon

Burns cold,

Burns deep.

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Afagddu

Gwionbach.

Sun and moon.

This cauldron earth.

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Winter moon

Looking down.

How many waters?

How many streams?

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Winter moon.

Keeper of souls.

Cool breath of words.

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Winter moon.

Cauldron warmed

By breath of nine

Maidens.

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Winter moon.

Cauldron bubbling.

Road of souls.

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Winter moon.

The gatekeeper asks:

What is your name?

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Winter moon.

Born with no mother,

No father.

Bright browed.

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Winter moon.

Taliesin.

Eloquent silence.

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Winter moon.

No stunned poet.

Radiance of starlight.

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A small breath of wind lifts the mist ‘til more blows in.

Two days, three days frost, has melted

And the birds are in the leaf litter.

The mountain’s voice says

‘Winter is not over yet’

But here in the valleys there is a small respite.

A day or two, perhaps, of gentler thoughts.

The world revolves around us here.

There is lamentation and the groans of fools from afar.

The waves, perceptible and arcane,

Encroach on the plans of contented futures.

But here, for a day or two,

Will be blue calm and the hope

Of buds and roots.

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NEW YEAR’S DAY

When there is nothing good to say

Then silence is better.

It is a calm day today,

Small rain in a dark sky.

Above the quiet valleys,

A high wind from the west is roaring.

The last day on Earth will be like this:

Resting in its own beauty,

All known, nothing named.

All reasons self-extinguished.

Watched over, cherished, belonging.

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CHRISTMAS NIGHT, CHRISTMAS MORNING

The moon strides through mist.

He is one: half-dead, half-reborn.

The garden is all jet and water –

The black shadow that is time and space.

There is no truth here but stories,

Is what we learn if we live long enough.

The river in its shroud, past the silent graveyard.

Nothing for you to do but weep and sing,

Says the sighing pines.

Nothing but to find beauty here and sing it,

Says the sighing pines.

And the stars look down in envy.

They would fold their wings and walk

These muddy, leaf-strewn paths.

They would feel the cold air of morning,

Let go of hope and fear,

Sing with sun and sparrows.

Would build their small fires,

Feast on emptiness and fullness.

Eternity weaving clothes for itself.

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Heart

HEART

Heart anchored to this land.

No need for more questions.

The slow breath of seasons.

An Ivy road that clings and wanders

About the steep sides of Mynydd Troed.

This voiceless white sky calls

Into a vast unknown.

Three days stand still:

The cold of motionless time.

Take it to heart.

Let the silence of it

Dwell there a while.

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