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Llandudno, the land of dreams
Llandudno’s is a foreign land,
with language you don’t understand,
but deep in love with her you’ll fall
when you have heard her deep heart’s call.
It's by a sacred, surging sea
of sacramental symmetry,
with sandless beach of shingled stones,
as burnt and bleached as dead men’s bones.
It has a rusty, old, grey pier,
a remnant of her yesteryear
when walkers had more time to kill
and days were longer, calmer, still.
It has a pretty promenade,
as beautiful as bearded bard.
It’s long and wide as ocean deep,
with wind to dry the tears you weep.
Like queen, it sits upon a quay,
like mermaid in her majesty.
A star-encrusted, sceptred isle
that breathes out beauty to beguile.
I swear, it is the land of dreams,
where sorrow's face no longer seems
so savage, like a rabid beast,
since sadness there's forever ceased.
For connoisseurs, there is a taste
of heaven, that they dare not waste;
so silently it slips away,
like love they yearned for, yesterday.
With meditative state of mind,
this fantasy you'll surely find,
along the coast, beside the sea,
an echo of eternity
that leaves you still and calm inside;
its tender, tranquil, turning tide
will touch you, take away your fears;
its warming wind holds back the years.
Escape to this idyllic cove,
with lovers, who with romance rove,
upon the Orme, along the pier,
where all their heartaches disappear.
This land is like a magic morn,
where poet in your soul was born,
as you lay dreaming on the beach
of love, as it swam out of reach.
It is the sweetest seagull’s song,
a sigh for love that won’t last long.
Since life’s a wave we can’t control,
a morning’s promenading stroll.
Beside the sea's the way, the truth:
the love you yearned for in your youth
that breathed on you one summer's day,
a dream divine that would not stay.
At last, you've found the lovebirds’ dream,
a nest, where love can flow like stream.
Where passion in the blood can burn
and lessons of true love you’ll learn.
Like heaven, it's a holy place,
a garden paradise of grace,
where sinners stroll, or sit and stare,
and breathe the breeze and salt sea air.
Llandudno's quaint, genteel and nice,
a picture-perfect paradise.
A magic world of make believe
that you'll take with you when you leave.
Comments
Obadiah Grey
Thu, 2023-03-16 12:46
You've done the town proud,
You've done the town proud, mate.
a lovely piece that has just tempted me
to take a ride there this summer,
I intended to do the whole coast
whilst I still have a bit of a spring in my arse.
Cheers, Obi.
Blue-eyed Bolla
Mon, 2023-03-20 11:30
llandudno
Many thanks, for the feedback, Obi. Yeah, Hopefully, I'll be heading for the coast this summer.
KBloor
Lavender
Thu, 2023-03-16 21:16
Llandudno, the land of dreams
Your poem is like a dream - you describe a wonderful paradise. So off to Google I went. Wow...the beautiful picture you painted with your words. "...where poet in your soul was born." A little bit of heaven, both your poem and Llandudno.
Thank you!
L
Blue-eyed Bolla
Mon, 2023-03-20 11:30
llandudno
Thank you, L.
KBloor
Geezer
Fri, 2023-03-17 09:23
Wow!...
I never faltered once in reading this. Well, maybe once.
The cadence is near perfection all the way through,
the only falter is the "Llandudno", it being such an odd word,
but it slips into obscurity the minute you begin the actual reading.
I've read it aloud, [a true test] and found it not wanting anywhere.
Having read the other's comments after I finished mine, I looked it up, and still found it an odd word!
Very nice! ~ Geezer.
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This must be the place, 'cause there ain't no place like this place anywhere near this place.
Obadiah Grey
Fri, 2023-03-17 10:34
Hiya, Geez, If you think its
Hiya, Geez, If you think its a difficult word to read
you're in for a spittle shower saying it mate !!
Geezer
Fri, 2023-03-17 11:01
Totally agree...
just like all those Ll words in sci-fi and fantasy novels. Spittle shower, huh? I like that phrase, I may use it sometime. ~Geez.
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This must be the place, 'cause there ain't no place like this place anywhere near this place.
Blue-eyed Bolla
Mon, 2023-03-20 11:33
Llandudno
Thank you, Geezer. Yeah, I suppose you can substitute any place of your dreams for Llandudno. It is a strange word to me also, since I'm English. Lovely place though.
KBloor
Rosewood Apothecary
Sat, 2023-03-18 14:23
I’m blown away
It’s never got old or tired and it stays right on topic. I’m very, very impressed. If I could suggest one thing…
but deep in love with her you’ll fall
when you have heard her (deep) heart’s call.
Maybe change that second deep to “vast” or some other appropriate one syllable modifying word.
Unbelievable precision,
Tim
Blue-eyed Bolla
Mon, 2023-03-20 08:01
llandudno...
Many thanks, Tim, for the feedback. I will certainly look into that line you've mentioned. Again, many thanks.
KBloor