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Morning Dogs: choka
The scrabble of claws across the linoleum: waking with the dogs. At the first hint of morning, they are ready to go. Forget your sleeping. The moment your body stirs, their insistence starts. Outside, outside! they clamor, until you do … Continue reading
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Simplicity: an englyn cyrch
Simple things make me content: knowing where my money’s spent, poems written, letters sent, feeling good the rent’s been paid, evenings without things to do, working ’til the work is through, reading a good book or two ‘neath a tree’s … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, domesticity, englyn cyrch, happiness, poetic forms, simplicity, Welsh verse forms
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