IN CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH OF OUR FIRST GRANDSON AUGUST 9 2015

 IN CELEBRATION OF THE COMING OF JOSEF RHYS

 

Monday’s child is fair of face

Mum-to-be swims

a mile,  freckle-smiling

checks her pulse.

 Not Monday’s child.

 

Tuesday’s child is full of grace

Mum-to-be watches breakfast TV, texts

by return of post, and yawns.

 Not Tuesday’s child.

 

Wednesday’s child is full of woe

Mum-to-be wobble-walks

to a Barnes café, drinks

NCT latté with other Mums in-waiting.

 Not Wednesday’s child.

 

Thursday’s child has far to go

Mum-to-be finger-winds

her hair, glances scullers rowing

up the Thames to Kew.

 Not Thursday’s child.

 

Friday’s child is loving and giving

Mum-to-be drums a tune

on her rolling tum, wonders

if her baby will ever come;

has acu-pressure and a sweep.

 Not Friday’s child.

 

Saturday’s child works hard for a living

Mum-to-be feels the squeeze, contractions,

labour pain- goes into hospital-

and home again.

 Not Saturday’s child.

 

But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day

is bonny & blithe, good and gay

Mum-to-be breathes air and gas

with Dad’s help pushes hard;

At 10.20 the world welcomes Josef Rhys

Sunday’s child.                                                                                          

BLACKBIRD

 

You woke me.

Your voice sharp

with vibrant zest,

an alarm call

from the top of the apple tree

urging me to get up

and celebrate the spirit

of this post-rain morning.

Sun-rays like fingers

open the eyes

of your sleepy babies 

in their ivy nest.

We are waiting for breakfast,

and still you sing and trill on.

 

JTD, April 27,2015

HAIKU WORKSHOP SATURDAY 7 MARCH 2-3PM, TOWER GALLERY,ORIEL Y PARC,ST DAVID'S

 

 

TIR/LAND

HAIKU WORKSHOP SAT 7 MARCH 2-3 PM.

Tower Gallery. Oriel y Parc, St Davids,Pembs

 

Haiku is a poetic form and type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines form, content and language in a meaningful yet compact way. Haiku poets often write about nature, feelings and experiences. The most common form for Haiku is three short lines, usually containing 17 syllables; five syllables on the first and third lines and seven on the middle line.

Would you like to respond creatively to Rhys Daniel’s art work by writing your own haiku? Places are limited to 12 so prior booking is essential. The best haikus will be displayed during the exhibition.

For further information contact Janet and Rhys at: janetdaniel125@hotmail.com

Text or telephone: 0750 5024 117.

TIR/LAND; A CELEBRATION OF PEMBROKESHIRE-5 MARCH -MAY 30 2015

Rhys and I are preparing for our joint exhibition at the Tower Gallery at Oriel y Parc in St.David's, Pembrokeshire. Below is the press release we are sending out. I'll be running a Haiku workshop on Saturday 7th of March at 2pm to encourage participants to write their own haikus inspired by Rhys' art work. See a separate entry.

TIR/LAND: A CELEBRATION OF PEMBROKESHIRE

EXHIBITION OF ARTWORK BY I.R.DANIEL & POETRY BY J.DANIEL

Arddangosfa o waith celf gan I.R. Daniel

a barddoniaeth gan J. Daniel

5 March / Mawrth – 30 May / Mai 2015

at Tower Gallery, Oriel y Parc, St. Davids, Pembs.

 

HAIKU Workshop Sat 7th March 2pm

Gweithdy HAIKU Sadwrn 7th Mawrth 2pm

 In ‘TIR/LAND: a celebration of Pembrokeshire’, Rhys and Janet Daniel have worked closely to produce art work and poetry inspired by the land and issues they feel passionate about.

Rhys studied art in Cardiff and Swansea. He has a successful track record as a visual artist and has exhibited in Britain and abroad. He uses mixed media. His work is rooted in ancient Celtic landscape and the natural world. Previous exhibitions have explored his connection with the Welsh landscape; connections between the sacred stones of Wales and Shetland, where he lived for a year; the world of dreams and the unconscious, and the impact of climate change on our environment. Rhys is also an experienced art teacher with over 40 years work in schools and diverse groups in the community.

Janet has written poetry, short stories, travel, memoir, plays and a book about the year spent working in the Shetland Isles.

Janet and Rhys met a long time ago on a photography course in Barry. They have spent the last 35 years summering in a tiny caravan travelling the breadth and depths of Pembrokeshire.

 

janetdaniel125@hotmail.com;  ieuanrhysdaniel.tumblr.com
Tel: 0750 502 4117

ATTACHMENT PANE

 

 

I watch you from the night garden,

trapped in a tiny pane of low-energy twilight,

head in school work, glasses slick on moist nose

-no longer seven but twenty seven-

soon to step into a larger pane

with others waiting for you.

I’ve had this separating moment so many times

I feel resigned

until

the light is a pin hole of indifference.

In panic, I fly back,

the light is there but you have vanished.

 

The light is there but you have vanished.

In panic, I fly back

until

the light is a pin hole of indifference.

I feel resigned.

I’ve had this separating moment so many times,

with others waiting for you.

Soon to step into a larger pane

-no longer seven but twenty seven-

head in school work, glasses slick on moist nose.

In a tiny pane of low-energy twilight

I watch you from the night garden.