Zen Beach with a Warm Breeze; Sunny Day with Gliding Seagulls; West Bay, Dorset

The Seagull, Dafydd ap Gwilym

Yr Wylan  (poem 45)

Fair gull on the tide, indeed,

of the same hue as snow or the white moon,

your beauty is without blemish,

 a piece like the sun, gauntlet of the brine.

You are light on the ocean wave,

swift proud fish-eating bird.

Yr wylan deg ar lanw, dioer, Unlliw ag eiry neu wenlloer, Dilwch yw dy degwch di, Darn fal haul, dyrnfol heli. Ysgafn ar don eigion wyd, Esgudfalch edn bysgodfwyd. Yngo'r aud wrth yr angor Lawlaw â mi, lili môr. Llythr unwaith lle'th ariannwyd, Lleian ym mrig llanw môr wyd.

Update , Tom Ough article on West Bay, The Telegraph 4/2/2017