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A Praise Song for Albion | Bard on a Bike
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Bard on a Bike. Poetic Peregrinations and Other Bardic Ramblings. About Bard on a Bike. Kreativ Blogger award winner. Posted by: Kevan Manwaring. November 4, 2014. A Praise Song for Albion. I have found it very powerful to recite. It is my way of giving something back, of saying thank you. To that place for its inspiration, ancient monuments, stored ancestral wisdom and legacy. It has been performed. If the poem inspires you to visit the locations mentioned, do let me know. I’ll be delighted. Follow &ldq...
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Recent Poems | Bard on a Bike
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Bard on a Bike. Poetic Peregrinations and Other Bardic Ramblings. About Bard on a Bike. Kreativ Blogger award winner. Sometimes the opposing shore. Can be clearly seen. An undulating band of brown and green and grey. Across the blue bay. The houses of Lonemore,. In their isolated togetherness,. Where civilisation seems to peter out,. Coughs a single croft,. Then hacks up the hairball of Big Sands. The dour mountains watch on, an inscrutable glint in the eye. Above, cloud upon cloud is stacked expectantly.
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Is there Peace? | Bard on a Bike
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Bard on a Bike. Poetic Peregrinations and Other Bardic Ramblings. About Bard on a Bike. Kreativ Blogger award winner. Posted by: Kevan Manwaring. November 10, 2014. The Arch-Druids calls out A oes Heddwch – Is there Peace? Yet there are some stories that break open the heart. An especially resonant one for me is that of Hedd Wyn. In 1992 a moving film was released of his story. I once again felt how could we possibly have let this happen again? Such an exercise in futility as the ‘War to End All Wars’ wa...
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Turning the Wheel | Bard on a Bike
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Bard on a Bike. Poetic Peregrinations and Other Bardic Ramblings. About Bard on a Bike. Kreativ Blogger award winner. At last – Bard on the Bike, the book! You’ve read some of my adventures here – now you can read the full story this winter. Seasonal Britain on two wheels. 8217; Phil Rickman, author of the Merrily Watkins series. From a 40th birthday party in Bath to Padstow May. Day, the Lammas Games at Avebury to Cheese Rolling. On a hillside in Gloucestershire … the mad, eccentric,. Fill in your detai...
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Short Stories | Bard on a Bike
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Bard on a Bike. Poetic Peregrinations and Other Bardic Ramblings. About Bard on a Bike. Kreativ Blogger award winner. 8216;He was surrounded by feral eyes. He could smell their stink. Their raw energy.’. The coach stopped at the crossroads. Peter jumped out, slinging a rucksack over his shoulder. The doors hissed shut and the vehicle moved off, taking the twentieth-first century with it. He wanted to forget, to purge her from his mind with sweat and mud, adrenaline and deep silence. The air quality had c...