Category: Animals
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The Burning of Gwylfryn
Centuries ago, just inside the Welsh border, existed a small village known as Gwylfryn. In those days, folk didn’t have names, but used what they did and where they came from as their ‘name’. One villager, Gwylfryn Hunterre, was the hunter. So proud a marksman was he, only one bird defied his arrows; the great…
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Simba
Simba: an East African word for lion. Simba: a character in the movie The Lion King (which I haven’t seen). Simba: The cat who thinks she’s a dog. Simba owns my brother. She made sure that he rescued her a few years ago, one December. He named her Simba in reference to the month, not…
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Observing the weather
As I write, clouds are hanging dark and menacingly up above. And not only overhead – they seem to be covering miles around. Below them, and just above the horizon, thinking about it, the darkness is contrasted by the brightest of white, which tells me that the day’s sunlight is still hanging on, and shining…
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The Boggart
When milk turns sour and the time’s not right,And objects vanish from out of sight,When noises sound in the dead of night,The imp’s playing its game. When doors are locked without a key,When four socks washed change to three,When papers shuffle without a breeze,There’s only one to blame. When laughter’s heard and no-one’s there,Or an…
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Messy Nessie
Hidden from viewFor the past year or twoIs the monster of the lochBut I stood on the shoreAnd heard an almighty roarWhich gave me a terrible shockI turned ‘round with gleeAs I expected to seeThe legend of the lakeBut the man in the suitWas a real fruit-loopAnd hardly a convincing fake
