Welsh Verse Forms..., for the Welsh or English languages Options

[Guest_Jox_*]

Bore da!



Apart from a couple of haikus which I have written, I tend to ignore formal poetic structures - actually I tend to avoid formal anything in life. However, a poem with a Welsh theme has been posted on MM and now one using a Welsh poetic structure has also been posted. Given this very welcome interest in aspects of Welsh culture I thought that those of you who liked working to structures might appreciate a web site which goes into some detail but is, nevertheless, very easy to understand. So, when we’ve all learnt these, we could set up our own eisteddfod! Now, who will be our first Chief Bard?

The Welsh poetry styles site:
http://www.anitraweb.org/kalliope/welsh.html

The National eisteddfod site: (English language version)
http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/index.php?lang=ENG

[Cleo_Serapis]

Thank you Jox!
Tir Nan Og poetry community
I also like this site for "IRISH POETRY and CELTIC POETRY"....
http://www.geocities.com/bikies_poetry/gaelic1.html

and this one:
Gwenllian's Poetry Primer:An Introduction to Welsh Poetic forms
http://www.cybercom.net/~klb/primer.html#intro

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi again.

http://www.britannia.com/wales/whist1.html

“It is known that the area now known as Wales was probably inhabited as early as 250,000 BC (the Lower Palaeolithic Age), and hand-worked tools have been found at various sites that date from around 26,000 BC. It wasn't until the retreat of the glaciers during the Ice Age around 10,000 BC, however, that human settlement in any significant numbers could begin.”

http://schoolsite.edex.net.uk/162/history.htm

“Before the arrival of the Celts from about 600 BC, Wales was occupied by a number of groups whose presence has been determined archaeologically. From about 4000 BC the Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) peoples of the area began to be replaced by more advanced Neolithic groups from continental Europe. It was these people who built the stone-chambered tombs called cromlechs found notably in Anglesey, southern Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, the Gower Peninsula, and the Vale of Glamorgan. During the late Neolithic era and early Bronze Age (about 2400 BC)”

[Guest__*]

So I can't count.  

I am a poet, not a mathematician.

A Byr y Thoddaid then, is it?  

In Arthur’s Halls

In Arthur's Halls there lived a maid
Her charm and modesty displayed
And favours given on a white pennant
proclaimed her gallant knight.

He took her colours to the list
Held tight within his ironed fist
While she kneeled down that she might pray to God
To grant her lord the day

He plied his sword and mighty lance
But came unhappy circumstance
His charger slipped and blood ran red and hot
Her hero lay there dead

And thus the maid in modest pose
Did sorrowful in her repose
Ensconce herself in widow's weed so black
Bereaved, bereft indeed.

Diolch yn fawr.

A.

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi,

Now I could hate you!

If you are going to offer something as brilliant as that I have to go away, spend a goodly time and try to write one - have not yet done so!

I regret to say I cannot speak Welsh - though I am trying. However, I thank you, too and say Bore da.

I shall return (eventually) with a Byr y Thoddaid.

Finally, I said it via a PM but I'll say it here too...

Crosseo y MM!

[Guest__*]

You called me from my rest. Again!
My sarcophagus is drafty.

And my beer's getting cold !!

A

[Cleo_Serapis]

So I can't count.  

I am a poet, not a mathematician.

A Byr y Thoddaid then, is it?  

In Arthur’s Halls

In Arthur's Halls there lived a maid
Her charm and modesty displayed
And favours given on a white pennant
proclaimed her gallant knight.

He took her colours to the list
Held tight within his ironed fist
While she kneeled down that she might pray to God
To grant her lord the day

He plied his sword and mighty lance
But came unhappy circumstance
His charger slipped and blood ran red and hot
Her hero lay there dead

And thus the maid in modest pose
Did sorrowful in her repose
Ensconce herself in widow's weed so black
Bereaved, bereft indeed.

Diolch yn fawr.

A.

Nicely written "A"!

I can see this is going to be a very interesting time here!

Feel free to post any items in Karnak into Plato or Medusa forums as well....

Now - about that drafty beer - where and when?

I'm awefully thirsty!  :costume:

P.S. - Do we know you from other sites already?

Cheers!
~Cleo

[Guest__*]

Peace be unto you Princess of the Nile.
Beloved daughter of Osiris the Incarnate.

A Blessing comes from my revered father, Ahmunhotep.

May the desert sun never stain your brow.
May the desert winds never chill your bones.


P.S. - Do we know you from other sites already?


This I know not. The only sites in Karnak are new. One, Murphy by name runs a labour camp, but is in ill favour. He won the contract to clean up the face of the Holy Sphinx, and used a sandblaster.
The other is a MacDonalds. These, I hear, are ubiquitous.

I was summoned by the one JOX who used the word that cannot be revealed. (We have a lot if such words in Ancient Egypt)

I would have come sooner, but I had to put my bandages into the dry cleaners. One has to maintain some degree of savoir faire.

Peace.

A.