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My poem 'A Virtuous Life' published in WiseOwl April 2024

https://www.thewiseowl.art/ieuan-ap-hywel

It is prosaic, very.

Thank you both. All comments always welcome.

A Virtuous Life Sestina By Ieuan ap Hywel We expire, death gathers pranas and devatas Our bodies return our elements to the earth The virtuous have lived according to holy law They travel the southern path to the ancestral world To spheres of the moon until karma is met They watch Earth flood with l...

I'll say it again, it wrong for us to expect every poem to be autobiographical.

One day I'm a sailor

The next I am a botanist

One day I'm a young girl the next a wizened old mina.

Approach a poem on its merits, never mind who it's about.

When will critiquers get it into their heads that a poem is not autobiographical. This isn't an agony-aunt letter box where people share the horrors of their lives neither is it a chat site to share problems. It is a poetry forum where people post most often fictional and/or imaginary poems with a d...

Thanks Bob, also to you for your recent publication.

A Virtuous Life Sestina We expire, death gathers pranas and devatas Our bodies return our elements to the earth The virtuous have lived according to holy law They travel the southern path to the ancestral world To spheres of the moon until karma is met They watch Earth flood with light and radiant ...

Thank you Bob, I feel a little embarrassed to keep posting them. There been a flood of publications lately, one more to come in April and another repeat of 'In Love With a Woman in her Later Years' with a photograph . But I want to keep track of my published works in ace I forget and if anyone asks ...

Published Poems and Competition Placings in WebDelSol's IBPC by Ieuan Ap Hywel A Virtuous Life Published in the Hyra Brook Edition of Terence Culleton's Winter Newsletter: March 2024 I find this poem by the award-winning Welsh poet Ieuan ap Hywel beautiful in its mantra-like cycling and recycling o...

Well done Bob, lovely poem.
You are on fire lately.

That link did not work by the way, I had to look you up with the search window.

What is a bleacher seat?

Congrats My own celebratory message: In Love With a Woman in her Later Years Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 17th January 2024 https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2024/01/17/in-love-with-a-woman-in-her-later-years-by-ieuan-ap-hywel/ Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim color Editor’s Note: This poem’s em...

Tribute from a Wooden Hut has been published
on Open Arts Poetry Forum's Front Page on the 11th March 2024.

https://openartsforum.com/forum/threads ... hut.24223/

No need for an encyclopaedia, Caleb, a good map of South Wales would do for the names of rivers and bays. R. S. Thomas is a famous contemporary Wales Poet. Gossamer Beynon, Polly Garter and Captain Cat are all characters from Dylan's story 'Under Milkwood'. Blodeuwedd a famous woman from the Mabinog...

I put it on the Block about 5 years ago Bob. Bernie loved it. I guess I didn't have enough confidence to put it out. Thankfully wiseowl.art found some merit in it and published this day in March 2024.

Thanks Bob, I value your input and continuing support down through the years.

I was here on the cliff at glan-y-mor, his reverie. Below, the boathouse, washed a pastel shade of lemon doused by sea mists of the Afan Taf that meander into Carmarthen Bay. He sat and wrote window open to the sea across the marsh from Black Scar the farm at Pentowyn, and Craig Ddu - Black Rock. La...

https://www.thewiseowl.art/ieuan-ap-hywei PUBLISHED POEMS AND COMPETITION PLACINGS by Ieuan Ap Hywel In Love With a Woman in her Later Years Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 17th January 2024 https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2024/01/17/in-love-with-a-woman-in-her-later-years-by-ieuan-ap-hywel/ E...

Thank you Caleb, altered.

*****
Just found this and thought it written by someone else
when in fact it was written by myself although I only
vaguely remember writing it. I thought it awfully good
actually. Better on here rather than in my desk drawer
as it were.
Ieuan
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Thank you Michael
It is so good to celebrate with old poetic pals.

Thanks Bob

I miss the monthly competition so much
it was so much fun

Such a pity.

COVID-19 Test Caused Man's 9-Month-Long Brain-Fluid Leak From the magazine: 'Live Science' No one enjoys the spillage of a blocked drain overflowing with rain. It goes against the grain, or bathwater running down collapsing the ceiling. Worse is a sewage pit backing up. The smell after cleaning-out...