Places of Poetry is a community arts project, centred on a newly designed digital map of England and Wales. Through the course of a four-month summer public campaign, writers from across the country were invited to write new poems of place, heritage and identity, and pin them to the map. Places of Poetry will help us reflect on our national and cultural identities, and celebrate the diversity, heritage and personalities of place. the following was my contribution
I am Wales
I am here, under a cloud of dream
on sacred turf, I wander
as the rain patters down
the land of my mothers and ancestors
on the west coast mooching about at leisure
as seasons leap and flowers bloom
the stem of hiraith glowing
I drift with time and memory
as the days dark shadows
creeps softly over day
surrounded by mountains and valleys
wild and elemental
inhaling the whiff of two languages
where each buoyant moment catches a nerve,
leaves me safe, with strength within
poetry of my heart sings
from deep within my veins
forging and shaping
with dragons tongue
the shape of things to come
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