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An Edition of the Early Merlin Poetry Prosiect Barddoniaeth Myrddin Cynnar
Prosiect Barddoniaeth Myrddin Cynnar, rhifyn ysgolheigaidd digidol cydweithredol rhwng Prifysgol Caerdydd, Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru a Phrifysgol Abertawe.
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February 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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‘Aleph’ - #RSThomas
(Between Here and Now, Macmillan)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
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October 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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‘Aie!’ - #RSThomas
(Between Here and Now, Macmillan)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
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August 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Mae'n Ddiwrnod Cenedlaethol Barddoniaeth!

Dysgwch am un o feirdd mwyaf Cymru gyda'r gyfrol 'R. S. Thomas, Desperado: Cultural Warrior of Wales' gan M. Wynn Thomas a gyhoeddwyd gennym fis diwethaf.

📚️ www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/book/r-s-tho...
October 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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‘In Great Waters’ - #RSThomas
(Frequencies, Macmillan)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem
June 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
husorbughes.bsky.social
'Kowl Methodek - Kowethasa'

Dons Men - www.tinyurl.com/DonsMen

Ragwolok ow huntel bardhonieth teyryethek / Blas ar fy nghyfrol barddoniaeth dairieithog / A preview from my trilingual poetry book.

#kernowek #cymraeg #bardhonieth #poetry #barddoniaeth #lgbt #minoritylanguage @kowethas.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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‘The Chapel’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)
#Capel #Chapel
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candiedwhiskey.bsky.social Gluten Morgan @candiedwhiskey.bsky.social · Feb 7
Always happy to pull RS Thomas off the shelf
February 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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‘Nuclear’ - #RSThomas
(The Way of It, Ceolfrith Press)
#Niwclear #Nuclear
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem
February 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
husorbughes.bsky.social
An unsel fordh may konvedhama a'n bys yn y studh a-lemmyn yw dre skrifa...

#kernowek #kernewek #cornish #bardhonieth #bardhonek #poem #cernyweg #barddoniaeth #cerdd
January 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Diolch yn fawr iawn i RS Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social

The View from the Window’ - #RSThomas
(Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis)

#poetry #landscapepoetry #natureepoetry #painting #ekphrasis #cerdd #barddoniaeth #bskypoets
February 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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‘Borders’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
#Gororau
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
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Text of poem - Borders Somewhere beyond time's curve civilisation lifted its glass rim. There was a pretence of light for nations to walk by through the dark wood, where history wintered. Following I came to the foretold frontier where with a machine's instinct the guns' nostrils flared at the blooms held out to them by the flower people.
October 4, 2026 at 7:23 AM
popethcymraeg.bsky.social
Heddiw ydy Diwrnod Cenedlaethol Barddoniaeth.
Today is National Poetry Day.
October 1, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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‘Gift’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
#Anrheg
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
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Text of poem - Gift. Some ask the world and are diminished in the receiving of it. You gave me only this small pool that the more I drink from, the more overflows me with sourceless light.
August 9, 2026 at 7:24 AM
ascolotl.bsky.social
As usual excellent ! I’ve always been curious about the prominence of apples in medieval Welsh — not just in Avalon but also in the lovely Myrddin poem Yr Afallennau (www.merlinpoetry.wales/poem/003/). Were they a symbol of romanitas? Or the older British crabapple? I’d love to know!
April 9, 2026 at 12:11 AM
rsthomaspoet.bsky.social
‘Prayer’ - #RSThomas
(Later Poems 1972–1982, Macmillan 1983)
#Gweddi
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem
Text of poem - PRAYER. Baudelaire's grave not too far from the tree of science. Mine, too, since I sought and failed to steal from it, somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time.
May 27, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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‘Gallery’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
#Oriel
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem
Text of poem - GALLERY. The stillness of paintings! Move stealthily so as not to disturb. They are not asleep. They keep watch on our taste. It is not they are being looked at but we by faces which over the centuries keep their repose. Such eyes they have as, steadily, while crowds come and crowds go, burn on with art's crocus flame in their enamelled sockets.
July 5, 2026 at 7:23 AM
rsthomaspoet.bsky.social
‘Formula’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
#Fformiwla
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem
Text of poem - Formula. And for the soul in its bone tent, refrigerating under the nuclear winter, no epitaph prepared in our benumbed language other than the equation hanging half-mast like the afterbirth of thought: E = mc'.
July 12, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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‘The Marksman’ - #RSThomas
(‘Agenda, 36.2, Autumn 1998)
#YrAnelwr
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem
Text of poem - The Marksman. Nature is still with us; the moon wanes and is not consumed. The only nostalgia is for language. Our muse now is the computer. Priming its software it fires round upon round of vocabulary in the poem's absence, wounding us ever more fatally with the accuracy of its information.
March 15, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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‘Return’ - #RSThomas
(Between Here and Now,
#Dychwelyd #Return
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
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Text of poem - RETURN. Taking the next train to the city, yet always returning to his place on a bridge over a river, throbbing with trout, whose widening circles are the mandala for contentment. So will a poet return to the work laid on one side and abandoned for the voices summoning him to the wrong tasks. Art is not life. It is not the river carrying us away, but the motionless image of itself on a fast-running surface with which life tries constantly to keep up.
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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‘Ceridwen’ - #RSThomas
(Transatlantic Review 18 [1965] )
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
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Text of poem - R. S. Thomas CERIDWEN Ceridwen, the rain's bangles Hang on you; you are crisp As a lettuce and as cool As a shadow. Your white teeth Are the keys Of a piano; play for me The laughter I love you for. I am dry, Ceridwen, as old bark; shake off the dew Of your surfaces upon me.
January 18, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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‘Bequest’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
#Becwêdd
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Text of poem - BEQUEST. Wanting peace we were misled by a dead nation's counsel to prepare for war. Thinking love would survive an instruction in violence we took ourselves back to a dark school, terrified ourselves with our own propaganda. As Germans their nostrils with bad smells, we inoculated ourselves with the poison factories in our meadows. Our scientists had white coats, vestments these of a clandestine ritual. Somewhere from under an old dustbin lid you will have emerged for the re-assembling of the species. We have left you nothing but the consequences of our refusal to sit down by the still pool in the mind, waiting for the unknown visitant's quickening of its surface.
July 8, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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‘The Witness’ - #RSThomas
(Decal Poetry Review 1.1, 1972)
#yTyst
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Text of poem - The Witness. And I, Thomas, saw the decline To evil. The old, bad ways Were re-learned. Men hired their Consciences; women grew hard, shrill. Nature had lost the ability To delight. Beauty was that which The eye, trained in money's aesthetic Sanctioned. Truth was a failure Of nerve. Meanwhile the earth turned From the light. The dark was the Darkness of the crucifixion Of love's body on a steel tree.
February 1, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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Oooo Diolch am hyn! Dw i’n caru barddoniaeth _ yn arbennig R.S.
July 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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‘He and She’ - #RSThomas
(Destinations, Celandine 1985)
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem
Text of poem - He And She. When he came in, she was there. When she looked at him, he smiled. There were lights in time's wave breaking on an eternal shore. Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed. Thoughts mingling were lit up, gold particles in the mind's stream. Were there currents between them? Why, when he thought darkly, would the nerves play at her lips' brim? What was the heart's depth? There were fathoms in her, too, and sometimes he crossed them and landed and was not repulsed. RS Thomas
June 7, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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#Cyflwyniad - #Introduction
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#Cerddoriaeth - #Music
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#Criced - #Cricket
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#Celf - #Art
November 18, 2024 at 10:26 PM