Mae Ymddiriedolaeth Gwiwerod Coch Clocaenog wedi cydweithio â’r bardd eco Diana Sanders i dynnu sylw at yr heriau sy’n wynebu gwiwerod coch sydd mewn perygl yng Nghlocaenog drwy farddoniaeth. Mae barddoniaeth eco yn cyfuno mynegiant creadigol ag actifiaeth amgylcheddol, gan gynnig ffordd bwerus o ymgysylltu pobl â materion fel colli cynefinoedd, llygredd sŵn, clefydau o wiwerod llwyd, a bregusrwydd ehangach y rhywogaeth brin hon yng Nghymru. Drwy’r cerddi hyn, mae Caro Collingwood (Ceidwad Gwiwerod Coch) a Diana yn gobeithio ysbrydoli mwy o ymwybyddiaeth a chefnogaeth i gadwraeth gwiwerod coch.
Bob wythnos byddwn yn cynnwys un o’r cerddi a ysgrifennwyd yng ngweithdy Diana.
‘Ostaria’— from a Red Squirrel doe’s point of view
by Heather McBain
After Liz Gibson
Ostaria wakes ‘gan-ger-gan’ to breathe new life
from constant storm to our forest home last Fall
North wind crashed the upright Pine;
echoes sounded ‘friend’ or ‘foe’
with few hides left to go.
Night noise sates starvation’s gnaw
wrenched from Gaeaf’s claw:
hear Grey squirrel’s scream, held at bay
too portly to climb out the way
outwit the Pine Marten: my tufty ears quicken
to the call as Buzzard on upward thermal air
warms to the prospect of ‘new blood’.
We Reds ‘cwtch’ close to Beech leaves
in the drey, sphagnum moss fusty
from Samhain’s claw, shiver as Crow
finds carcass to sate ‘chwant’
Ostaria wakes to new life’s call.
Ostaria – late March, time of mating
Samhain – time of hibernation Gaeaf – winter
gan-ger-gan – cheek by cheek
chwant – appetite
