Barley Feed @ Penny

  I made it up, can't give a good account of this poem and the others like of suffering the pain of battle, the agony of war. War being the excuse the powers give to fight their elite battles by proxy and make us feel heroic when we die for them. Explorations in North Wales led to intuitive participation in caves, circles, sea and land  Taliesin was a cover for something else harder to grasp, the dying, the resignation, meditation of the fallen after battle that ranges from the sea up into hills and mountains. These earlier Aneurin Y Gododdin-like poems aren't cynical. They are laments, elegies, threnodies of the fallen where ever they are. here