To Dyfed

Literally buried beneath your bardic name,

you, through poems, and praise of Christ, can utterly claim

bardic poetry as your chief vocation,

its presence declared in your very appellation.

 

Starward

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Author's Notes/Comments: 

And to all others who wrote or write under bardic names:  Cynan, Talhaiarn, Golvan, Humilas, Carnhuanaw, Ab Ithel . . . to name only a few of the great ones.

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bardic poetry as your chief

bardic poetry as your chief occupation--nice line and wordplay

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Thank you.   And it did seem

Thank you.   And it did seem to be his chief occupation.  Although a preacher in the Calvinist Methodist Church of Wales, he was mor eknown, I think, for his poems than his preaching.  He was Archdruid for a number of years.  He presided as Archdruid over the granting of the Chair in poetry to Hedd Wynn, who had just been killed on Flanders Field.


Starward