Dave Lewis
Dave Lewis Poems
You came in a beat up old blue Landie
with tales of sleeping giants on your lips.
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He never once mentioned the pressure of his blood
or his Mam
I found dead on the floor
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‘I'll take him for ya, ' croaked Jack. ‘It'll cost ya half a crown though.'
Then the cobbled street would be painted with an old man,
limping down the hill, his shin had been shot off during the Great War.
A trusting mutt, ragged at the end of a short piece of rope,
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Although it was cold, so very cold, on the streets of Moscow at least we had each other. Huddled in doorways, scurrying through subways, riding the train to Red Square, scavenging beneath St Basils, wandering through Gorky and begging for frankfurters or boiled sausage outside the backdoors of restaurants and lapping up kefir from the drains. As a baby I'd been brave, learning to survive on the streets like that but when they took me and confined me in that small cage I have to admit I was a little bit scared. Then came the laxatives and the centrifuges and the scalpel cuts bathed with iodine. Dr Yazdovsky let me play with his children a while and for those brief minutes I had high hopes for the future. I was quiet and charming so they say. But when you gave me that final kiss on the nose I suppose deep down inside I knew my destiny lay among the stars. Alone, in silence, I watched the world spinning round, one thousand miles below. Then on the fourth lap I felt the temperature rise and I suppose I just shut my eyes for a moment. I was only three years old.
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Dave Lewis Biography
I'm a #1 Amazon Best Seller and award-winning Welsh writer, poet and photographer based in Pontypridd. I've always lived in Wales except for a short spell in Kenya in 1993-94. I write content for and still maintain many web sites. I've worked for BBC Wales, written local newspaper columns and been published in a number of literary magazines and web sites all over the world. In 2007 I set up the first ever Welsh Poetry Competition, an international poetry competition aimed at encouraging the wealth of creative writing talent that we all know exists in Wales but currently languishes in the doldrums. In 2019 I created the Writers of Wales A to Z database, which seeks to highlight the abundance of literary talent either from Wales or with a deep connection to Wales, both past and present. I also run Publish & Print, a book publishing company that is seeking good writers that have been overlooked by the mainstream publishing industry. I've published numerous books, which can be bought direct from this web site, from all good book stores and are also available for download with Amazon Kindle and other platforms. My poetry collection, ‘Scratching The Surface‘ has one of my ‘poetry heroes' and one of Britain's greatest poets - Brian Patten - praising my work! Makes it all worthwhile. In 2020 I launched the Poetry Book Awards, an international contest that seeks to reward self published poets, indies and small presses by helping to promote great poets overlooked by traditional publishers.)
The Best Poem Of Dave Lewis
River Wye Weekend
You came in a beat up old blue Landie
with tales of sleeping giants on your lips.
It was your first night in the cottage
when the Wye was skipping over stones,
dividing the spiked water milfoil
with sacred Pumlumon Fawr sunk into the sunset.
We watched a heron draggle
in and out of the water crowfoot beds,
trusted we'd see muntjac or wild boar tomorrow.
Look, there's a kingfisher, jewelled above the otter's holt
and later a dipper, teeter-totter,
near the yellow-cress.
Watching frogs collared by ripples
we wish for a grass snake or polecat.
Skipping past horse-tail and great willowherb
you trace the sand martins with your miniature fingertips
while I collect peppery chives from the bedrock
and turn my once carefree soul to my stomach.
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