Llyn y Fan – The Lady of the Lake

 

Un o chwedlau  mwyaf adnabyddus Cymru gyda fersiynau gwahanol trwy’r wlad i gyd o’r Rhondda Fach i’r Eryri. Mae’r barddoniaeth yma wedi seilio ar y fersiwn o Sir Gar a’r Meddygon Myddfai

One of the most well known of Welsh legends with variants all over the country from the Rhondda to Snowdonia. This poetry is inspired by the Black Mountain version and the Physicians of Myddfai.

 

Llyn y Fan Fach

 

It’s so quiet I can hear the two girls breathing softly

The flowers’ scent is blown towards me by the breeze

Apple blossom changes slowly into fruit like water moving

Water splashes against the cool shady rocks

The wild deer grazes on the other side of the mountain

I choose you

 

Windsor Clive Junior School

Yr 5

 

 

 

 

Llyn y Fan Fach

 

We dream our father’s life

 

We see our Mother’s footprints

mixed with as many hoof marks

as there are rocks on the shore

 

The poor stony clay is scarred by the plough

Calf’s blood poisons the furrow

 

Our mother wakes us with the kiss of knowledge

 

Windsor Clive Junior School

Yr 5

 

 

 

 

Love Breaks

a middle aged man with a wrinkly bristly face

 

his shoes tied like his wife’s

to remember their golden love

 

the water dissolves his soles – he moans

his sweat weakens the stiches – he weeps

the rocks rip the leather – he cries

 

he collapses – his heart breaks – he dies

 

Windsor Clive Junior School Yr 3

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