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Druids- Deru in Welsh is the truth
Drus in Greek is Oak
But Who do you picture?
A Male with his staff?
Yet women were Druids
Within these Celtic lands.
For men tended to men;
Women tended to women.
healers of the mind
mediators
doctors
healers
Astronomers
Lawyers
Scientists of their time
Researchers
War Strategies known
Religious Leaders
Counsellors
Mediators
MPs for their clan
All combined;
And rolled into one.
A magician/witches; they now seem to be known.
For they were
the leaders of their community;
of the time.
Representing each clan
All combined and entwined!
Yet the lands were pillaged
Women & Children of them
burned & drowned
Deemed witches of a cult
Villages and towns
Cleansed lands so they deemed
Some were –
Deemed lucky to escape;
in vessels that promised hope to cross the pond
Refuge sought from the madness the locked and bewitched the royals of the time.
For slavery was rife in these lands
With every conquer.
Yet Henry the VIII & Edward VI
Banned their native tongue;
Burned and culled the books of this native lands tongue.
Killed all who spoke
this then deemed
Devils tongue.
To speak Welsh was deemed a crime!
One for your life!
Make Wales pay!
For their pagan ways;
deemed unholy!
to have; no place within the ideals of the new time
The royals created
Is built upon.
Blood.
The new the wave order!
For their now; newly acquired lands.
Yet the blood of the lands
runs deep
in this land
And in their hands.
For this stood;
the test of time
For one reference
Denoted in Caesar
As far back as 55 BC
One written reference!
And traded with Rome
Yet it goes back further.
Yet welsh lives on!
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