Here's a heart rending offering to Poet's Corner from a Treorchy gentleman which marks the anniversary this month of the disaster which engulfed a village school, situated two valleys away, on October 21st 1966. Some 124 lives were lost that morning when a coal tip high on a mountainside slipped. 112 were primary school children.
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"Oh God"
The filthy sludge flows swiftly down the slope
Obliterating dreams - forsaking hope
A deathly hush pervades along the vale
The horror soon to be - beyond the pale
A product of the reckless greed of man
Resulting in a crime called ABERVAN.
by William Ashton
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