Wales: A special land

We celebrate being Welsh on St David's Day.

Many people do this in different ways.

Little girls, like dolls in Welsh costumes,

All quiet and meek.

Boys in red rugby shirts displaying their leeks.

Here are my thoughts on our Welsh history.

Does any of this make you proud, or is it me?

Valley means long low area between hills,

Along the roadside our yellow daffodils.

Male voice choirs singing like one voice,

That Welsh comedian Max Boyce,

Covered in black dust, men come home from the pits,

Tom Jones on the radio, singing number-one hits.

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, poet and writer,

Joe Calzaghe, a prize-winning fighter,

Laverbread, cockles, a plate of Welsh cakes,

Charlotte Church and Gavin Henson, a nice couple they make.

Upon the screen, Richard Burton, Ivor Emmanuel, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Ray Milland.

Places to visit, Mumbles, Gower, you can walk along the sand.

Many rugby players, old and new, Bennett, Davies, Jenkins, Edwards, Williams, Hook and Evans,

All singing at Cardiff stadium: "Bread of Heaven."

Beautiful women on the TV, Katherine Jenkins, Catherine Zeta Jones and Shirley Bassey.

I live in Aberavon, Cwmfellinfach I was born.

But on St David's Day, my daffodil is worn.

Mrs Christine David

Aberavon, Port Talbot