Visiting Aberedw Rocks

Leaving home in the milky mist,
blue sky emerges as we travel west,
park in a village close to the Wye,
little river Edw bubbling by
to meet the big river, increase its flow.

Along this pleasant sound we walk,
and then climb up, with paths cut through
the rampant bracken leading to
the hilltop, rocky outcrops guarding
look like ruined walls overgrown
of ancient fortress now half-buried;

– and perch for lunch to see afar,
Black Mountains high and Pen y Fan
 – double peaks of Brecon Beacons;
here there is gorse and heather,

wend down and round again through bracken
pass solitary hawthorns –
red fruit catch the sunlight,
a sheep stands on watch on a look-out ledge.