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  by Sonnet Diva 3 months ago

  I enjoyed this one, so happy that you shared and are writing. Good imagery Simon
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  by Simon Banks 3 months ago

  Thanks, SD. The story is that I'd wanted for some time to spend a night on a mountain. The Welsh mountain Cader Idris is not too hard to climb, not too hard to get to, was one of my favourites and has a hut on the summit. It features prominently in Welsh mythology as a place of spirits and there's a myth/legend that if you spend the night there, next day you're either mad or a poet (bard). I was intrigued by this, so adding it all up, Cader Idris was the obvious choice. I spent the night in the hut. Nothing ghostly happened, but I saw a spectacular sunset and sunrise (the sea is visible from the summit) and mist masking distant lights as described. Ravens flying about and calling continued this after dark - which could possibly explain some of the old stories.
  
  A year or two later there was a competition at work for a Halloween-themed. or at least supernatural-themed, poem. I decided to write one about my night on the mountain. It won. I then went on writing poems - so the legend worked!