A Poem by / Cerdd gan Rosie Hadden

Translated by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd

when you are ill again

i dress myself in golden plover’s down crawl into the spaces where moss flourishes quiet as sphagnum i hide in the sprawling arms of willow wait for the fawn to arrive as i know she will hobbling through the bog nibbling the tops of blue scabious purple moor grass reeds i want to climb inside her eyes stretch my vision three hundred degrees discover dawn and twilight sense the sweat on the hunter’s finger when he’s half a mile away follow the doe-herd’s tracks through bracken bramble gorse up onto the Carn’s shoulders know the steadiness of four feet and what it is to leap the boundary wall

ppan fyddi’n sal eto

gwisgaf fy hun mewn manblu’r cwtiad aur gwasgaf i gulfanau lle mae mwsogl yn ffynnu mor dawel â migwyn rwy’n cuddio ym mreichiau llydan yr helyg gan aros i’r elain gyrraedd gan fy mod mor sicr y daw yn hercian trwy’r gors yn cnoi blaenau’r clafr glas glaswellt y gweunydd cyrs hoffwn ddringo i'w llygaid ymestyn fy ngolwg dri chant gradd nes darganfod gwawr a chyfnos synhwyro’r chwys ar fys yr heliwr hanner milltir i ffwrdd dilyn traciau gyr yr ewig trwy redyn mieri eithin i fyny ar ysgwyddau'r Carn deall cadernid pedwar carn a sut beth yw llamu’r wal derfyn

Rosie Hadden won Teignmouth Open Competition in 2022 and was Highly Commended in the Rialto Nature & Place Competition 2023.  Her work appears in Ink, Sweat &Tears, A New Ulster, Art.earth, The Hovel Press and Fal Publications.  She’s Chair of Falmouth Poetry Group.  She’s mentored by Katrina Naomi.