Sunday, January 10, 2016

Newlyn Moor Comments

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The bracken and the mountain ash
cleave to an open shaft;
a dropped stone makes a distant splash
as if a miner laughed
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Roy Ballard
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Soran M. H 21 December 2019

amazing as usual, good poem by good poet..

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Roy Ballard 03 July 2017

This is Newlyn East, Cornwall where the Rose Wheal tin mine was.

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Margaret O Driscoll 10 January 2016

Ah, Roy your writing makes me hear that wind on the high -strung wire, what a splendid piece! !

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Roy Ballard 01 January 2017

Thank you Margaret. It is a child hood memory of the Cornish moor near the old mining village of St. Newlyn East. Have a happy new year!

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