My poem on the radio!!

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My poem read out on the radio!!! Whoo-hoo!

This morning at 8:45, my poem was read on Swansea Radio, 96.4 fm 'the Wave'.

It was this one:

Through mountains jade and skies of blue
to the
Swansea area of Cymru
there we find our dank, dark town
not picturesque
but more grotesque,
a steaming, stinking mound.
"Port
Talbot," say the local girls,
"the arsehole of the world."

In Sandfields and its Western ave
the streets are roamed by yobs, hoodies and chavs.
Station road with public house,
not velvet rose
but drug-filled nose
stabbed or shot, smack in the mouth.
"
Port Talbot," say the local boys
"a flower doused with oil."

Workmen pour from the Corus doors
of that Margam monster breathing brimstone.
Taibach's grime, terraced homes;
they do detest
the streets of less.
Open sewer, jobless drones.
"
Port Talbot," say the local orcs,
"is like Tolkein's Mordor."



I'm quite happy!!!

Kie
 

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Awesome! Congrats, Kie!
 

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I hear it read in a lovely broad welsh accent-lovely-Dylan Thomas reading kind of-reading K's poem with that lovely music in the voice-congratulations-Dave
 

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Congratulations! You need to put this in the Goals and Accomplishments thread so more people can find it. :)
 

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(imagines a Welsh cross between Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen...

boggles)

Brilliant, Kie. Just brilliant. And we knew you when. Superb news, mate!
 

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No, I didn't get to read it myself. It was read out by the aways funny Badger and Emma on their breakfast show.