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Poetry
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The Selected Poems

Index of Titles
The Rainbows End.
Child of Summer
Letter to Bear
The Washer
This is Love?
A Troubled mind
Iona Sound
Faerie Chime
The Hermit
Continuations of a theme
Ode to spring
A Tear of Truth
Ode to a Starling
The Keswick Carles
The Gates
Bel
Angels Sing
In Flight
A World of Dreams
Peace
Intimations of death and rebirth
The Flower
Ode to spirit
The pool of Life
The Seed
Soft Shadows
The Earths Rape
Ode to a Tree
The Hand of the Reaper
Hope
Leanne
The Journey
Sonnett to a snowflake
No Time, No Love
Beltane
Angel Bride
The Promise
Morning Love
Lost in Love
The virtues of life
The passing
With You

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The Washer
Composed in early summer 1996

I see you! I gaze across this open space and whatever I do,
Wherever I am, I know, you’re always close at hand.
I hear you! The crashing waves, the gulls at dawn, the cry of a child
So young is borne upon the winds that Whisper softly with your Voice.
I know you! I think I always did! A vision deep within my mind, so
Lost was I and oft times blind, but with a wish, a dream, to hold you In my heart.
I fear you! the strength and power that you wield, like lost souls,
Upon a barren field, too young to see their deaths revealed, and yet,
Too scared to turn away, so silently I hear them pray, just one more
Day, let love be felt within our hearts, that we may know you too.
I hate you!
This grip you have upon my life, to take the love of
Child and wife, and leave a heart so torn with strife, to learn a lesson
Taught so true, that I have yet to learn.
I love you!
I cannot rid you from my mind, I search within so deep To find, that still I cannot understand,
within my life, what has been
Planned, sky, sea, hills and vales divide our hearts, yet join us in this
Last eternal bond.

Identify, my cries of pain, my angered screams in darkest nights, this
Depth of knowledge with lack of sight, a
Vision lost, a soulless flight.
Identify, this confused state, that makes all time and journeys wait,
And recognise me, here am I.
I stand upon this naked earth, searching still, for all I’m worth, for
All I need to know.
I miss you!
For at times like this, I know you whisper in my ear,
Have faith not fear, your thoughts are clear,
yet pity drowns my tears.

Maélwys /|\