St Davids Day Poems

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Dancing Daffodils?
I don't think so.
Slimline,
Sun-seeking,
Driven ducklings
With eggyolk
Ever-ready mouths.
Twitching pointlessly, Fruitlessly.
Bringing the news
In their all-weather attire.
Shivering,
Imperceptibly,
In icy North-Easters
As the Sun's arc
Climbs higher
Up the hill
Who
Took time to
Plant them
In that hedge
So far from
House or road?

Christopher Challener

<span font-size="16px"><span font-size="16px"></span></span> <p></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 25px;">more</span><br> <span style="font-size: 25px;">St Davids Day Poems</span><br></h2> <div class="ImageBlock ImageBlockCenter"><img src="/images/a.jpg" width="304" data-pin-media="https://www.verses4cards.co.uk/images/a.jpg"></div> <p style="text-align: center"><br> <br> Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus<br> That's the Welsh Way<br> To say on the 1st March<br> Happy St. David's Day<br> The smallest city in the UK<br> Carries St David's name<br> Throughout his life he drank nothing but water<br> No doubt, today, you'll do the same<br> ...as if<br></p> <p style="text-align: center">Jon Bratton 2013</p> <p style="text-align: center">**<br></p> <p style="text-align: center">Daffies<br></p> <p style="text-align: center">**</p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>St Davids Day Poems</i><br></p> <p style="text-align: center">Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs<br> About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,<br> The night above the dingle starry,<br> Time let me hail and climb<br> Golden in the heydays of his eyes,<br> And honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns<br> And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves<br> Trail with daisies and barley<br> Down the rivers of the windfall light.<br> And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns<br> About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,<br> In the sun that is young once only,<br> Time let me play and be<br> Golden in the mercy of his means,<br> And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves<br> Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,<br> And the sabbath rang slowly<br> In the pebbles of the holy streams.<br> All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay<br> Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys,<br> it was air and playing, lovely and watery<br> And fire green as grass.<br> And nightly under the simple stars<br> As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,<br> All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the<br> nightjars. Flying with the ricks, and the horses<br> Flashing into the dark.<br> And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white<br> With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder:<br> it was all shining, it was Adam and maiden,<br> The sky gathered again<br> And the sun grew round that very day.<br> So it must have been after the birth of the simple light<br> In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses<br> walking warm out of the whinnying green stable<br> On to the fields of praise.<br></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>St Davids Day Poems</i><br></p> <p style="text-align: center">And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house<br> Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,<br> In the sun born over and over,<br> I ran my heedless ways,<br> My wishes raced through the house high hay<br> And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows<br> In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs<br> Before the children green and golden<br> Follow him out of grace.<br> Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time<br> would take me<br> Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,<br> In the moon that is always rising,<br> Nor that riding to sleep<br> I should hear him fly with the high fields<br> And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.<br> Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,<br> Time held me green and dying<br> Though I sang in my chains like the sea.<br> Dylan Thomas</p> <p style="text-align: center">**</p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>St Davids Day Poems</i><br></p> <p style="text-align: center">In his last sermon David told his monks to "do the little things, the small things you've seen me doing".<br> ...it reminds us that the primary things for us are the<br> relationships around us, the need to work at what's<br> under our hands, what's within our reach.<br></p> <p style="text-align: center">**</p><object width="425" height="349"> <param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/3kUnCwV3AYE?fs=1&hl=en_GB"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/3kUnCwV3AYE?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="349"> </object> <p></p> <p style="text-align: center">**</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br clear="all"> <br clear="all"> St Davids Day Poems, the place where you’ll find free to use rhyming material suitable for cards, speeches, messages, recitals etc to celebrate 1st March. 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