We’re playing the game
Waiting for you to wake up
Prepare to be shocked
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haiku: Playing A Game
Category: poetry
Tanka: Light of the World
We watch you salute
The rest of us are crying
A light has gone out
The riderless horse breaks free
His saddle is refitted
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haiku: Coalescence
Birds like random thoughts
Squawking right over my head
Ideas coalesce
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Music Box – ‘Llwyn Onn’ ( ‘The Ash Grove’ ) – Côr Meibion Treorci – Treorchy Male Voice Choir — Art, Photography and Poetry
Famous Welsh Folk Song/ Cân Traddodiadol Cymraeg Geiriau/ Lyrics: Yn Nyffryn Llwyn Onn draw mi welais hardd feinwenA minnau’n hamddena ‘rol byw ar y don;Gwyn ewyn y lli oedd ei gwisg, a disgleirwenA’r glasfor oedd llygaid Gwen harddaf Llwyn Onn.A ninnau’n rhodiana drwy’r lonydd i’r banna,Sibrydem i’n gilydd gyfrinach byd serch;A phan ddaeth hi’n adeg […]
Tanka: Dream of Generations
Once we had a dream
We believed the world could change
But the good died young
Generations have suffered
The untold and the unknown
copyright Francis Barker 2020
