The sound of metal being drawn is music to Thengel's Ears

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Sea-deep eyes, skin swan-feather white
cascading mantle of midnight
To my sight, in steel and shield
the forge still flickered. Draw the blade-
I hear the metal’s serenade
Unafraid, unsheathed, revealed

This is a Cywydd Llosgyrnog (cuh-with lo-seer-nock) for Morwen Steelsheen. It was the word Llosgyrnog that started me thinking about Morwen of Lossarnach. Finding that she had been born in Belfalas gave me the black and white image.

This poem was written for the challenge "How Do I Love Thee" at Henneth Annun. Information on the interlocked verse forms is available in the Henneth Annun forum Verse and Adversity or here.

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