Michael Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mihangel ap Ifans

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestonestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea. Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

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A shallow stream flows through a dense, wooded area with bare trees and moss-covered banks. Rocks are scattered throughout the stream bed and along the sides of the watercourse.

Nant y Pwyntel, ger Caerffili
#Cymru

Text of poem - Welsh Resort. R. S. Thomas. And always the south darkening for rain And the wind rising ... There are children here Who can sing. God knows their reason Not I, who see them making For manhood or womanhood with their heads] Empty, their hearts hardened against the Thrift, that in the old was counted For wisdom. They serve the machine Gladly, that takes their praise Like a god, smiling inscrutably To itself, doing the work They were meant for. In summer will come The manipulators of the machine With the dividends these cannot inherit.

‘Welsh Resort’ - #RSThomas
(Planet 1, 1970)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Definitely feeling a bit antipodean now 😉

Also the Taco Bridge!

‘The Welsh Hill Country’ - #RSThomas
(An Acre of Land, Montgomeryshire Printing Co)

An excellent topic, even more so now.
My wife Hilary trained for ordination at LKH!

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White Poppy against a blue background

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

A dark wood carving of an owl with spread wings sits atop a tree stump with swirling designs. It is nestled amongst overgrown vegetation and stone walls.

Gwdihŵ - Tylluan - Owl
#Llysfaen #Caerdydd #Cymru

‘The Moon in Lleyn’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)

Colour photo of bright yellow daffodils

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Happy St David's Day!
“Gwnewch y pethau bychain - Do the little things”. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus i bawb!
Happy St David's Day to everyone!
"Gwnewch y pethau bychain - Do the little things"
'Llanddewi Brefi' by #RSThomas (Uncollected Poems, Bloodaxe Books)

A winding dirt path leads through a dense forest of bare beech trees with mossy trunks. The forest floor is covered in a thick layer of fallen copper-brown leaves and scattered branches.

Coedwig ffawydd hardd ger Caerffili.
A beautiful beech forest near Caerffili.
#Cymru

Contemporary Ukrainian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt

A winding dirt path leads through a dense forest of bare beech trees with mossy trunks. The forest floor is covered in a thick layer of fallen copper-brown leaves and scattered branches.

Coedwig ffawydd hardd ger Caerffili.
A beautiful beech forest near Caerffili.
#Cymru

Lord, give our bodies restful sleep & let the work we have done today be sown for an eternal harvest. #nightprayer

‘The Kingdom’ - #RSThomas
(H'm, Macmillan)

A narrow path leads through a forest landscape on a sunny day. The path, comprised of dirt, mud, and fallen leaves, stretches into the distance, flanked on both sides by dry grasses and shrubs that are mostly brown, green and yellow

Taith Cambria (Cambrian Way)
Ger Caerffili (near Caerphilly)
#Cymru

Text of poem - Don't look up so we do and are guilty. The old fear of the castle lingers. We call a taxi and the taxis are mafia controlled. Where is the freedom we fought for? The bridal veils are rigid with frost. The clock bells are husky with calling upon the cuckoo to come back. Down tall streets we get lost among iron- faced buildings. In a corner a cockroach that was once a man crouches. We push its rations towards it, feeding it with averted eyes on the rottenness of Europe.

‘Don't look up…’ - #RSThomas
(Babel September 2023)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

A shallow stream flows through a dense, wooded area with bare trees and moss-covered banks. Rocks are scattered throughout the stream bed and along the sides of the watercourse.

Nant y Pwyntel, ger Caerffili
#Cymru

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Good morning, bore da!🌅

😴

A peaceful sleep
I wish for thee
Where cares and worries
Cease to be.

Sleeping Deer (1913)
🎨 Franz Marc

With the first light of dawn,
may God bless you.
When the long day is over,
may God bless you.
In your smiles and your tears,
may God bless you.
In your hopes and your fears,
may God bless you.
#nightprayer

Bare beech trees frame a distant view of the town of Caerffili.

Looking through a beech forest to distant Caerffili
#Cymru

And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away

Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill

Carol Collette #BookWormSat

Digital art depicting a woman in profile, a crescent moon surrounded by stars nestling in her long dark hair, which flows behind her. She is looking down at a brown butterfly which has landed on her hand.

'I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.'
~Dylan Thomas

🎨Christian Schloe
#BookWormSat

Painting featuring two trees with pink blossom against a blue sky

'Cherry Blossom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

“Now the heron grieves in the weeded verge. Through windows
Of dusk and water I see the tilting whispering
Heron, mirrored, go”
Dylan Thomas (1949)
#photography #heron #BirdPhotography #poetry #DylanThomas #shoreline #mirror #pool #sea #PotD