Job Centre Gwawdodyn

Cherry

By Alfie Shoyger

Thu, 27 Sep 2018
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I said, “Jobs are just there to annoy.”

He smiled, “Come, now. What do you enjoy?”

I replied, “Obscure Welsh poetic forms.”

He scowled, “The door’s over there, my boy.”

 

 

 

 

 

From “Disoccidented” by Alfie Shoyger:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Disoccidented-Alfie-Shoyger/dp/1999922859

 

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Comments

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

You've had fun there! I'd never heard of it, and on looking up one of the explanations eventually realised you sort-of had the internal rhyme aswell.

Seems such an odd word, as 'gwawd' means now usually 'scorn' or 'satire' and yet, apparently can (archaically, obsolete) mean poetry or song, and 'gwawdlef' a 'song of paise'. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Brilliant thread!