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Fireside & Icicles — Poems for Winter

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He Writ He Ririt.

My poetry is mostly what we call strict meter poetry technique, not exactly unique to welsh. It's bound up in the welsh language, and is a very old way of making poetry. And it involves alliteration, internal rhyme, semi rhymes, bouncing rhymes, chiming rhymes. I was lucky because my teacher in school was a very good practitioner, and he told me one to one. So i had a badi teacher, and i learnt alongside my school work, i learned how to do it here.

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