THE BARD OF PROJECT MADOG

On November 5, 2003, Nesta (a.k.a. Keri Simacek) was installed as Bard of Project Madog on the basis of her winning poem submitted to the Project Madog Eisteddfod. The challenge was to write an acrostic poem based on the word TECHNOLOGY. The adjudicator was Rev. Joseph Corbin, Reedsburg, WI.
Here is her poem:

My TECHNOLOGY POEM by Nesta

Telephones
Electronic devices
Camera, digital
Helpful
Networking
Of many
Lots of Information
Obstacles here and there
Great resource
Yet more to come.
Other on-time entries

Teaching
Each
Child
Helps
Nourish
Our
Level
Of
Great
Youth

By Peterson

Taking
Elementary
Computer classes
Helps to
Nourish
Our
Lads and Lasses
Online
Graduation
YAHOO!!!!

By Peterson

Thinking
Education
Can't
Handle
New technology
Only
Lessens
Overly
Gullible
Youth

By Peterson

Television
Evoked
Commercials
Hourly
Nourishing
Our
Longing
Over
Gigabytes
Yearnings

By Peterson

Cultural Identifites Through TECHNOLOGY

Composed by FARGASIL

Text message
Easy as Dell
Cell phones
High Definition Television
Networks
Olympus digital cameras
LOL lingo
Online dating
Gates or Gore?
Yahoo!

by Rhiannon Epona Sian

T elephones
E lectricity &
C ars,
H owever
N ormally
O bserved
L inger
O n,
G rwoing
Y early (more important).

By Techno Queen

Today we face a world where
Everyone has the
Chance to
Help one another,
Not just
On a
Local basis, but
Global through the gift we call tecnology
every day of the
Year.

 

Teaching
Even
Changes
Here
Not
Overlooking
Lasting
Outcomes
Gained
Yearly.

By Sorry

 

Late entries (not judged)

By Domnhall

Thinking, tinkering:
Enlighten, enhance, and embrace
Computational change, creative communications.
Hardware hardened and heightened and hastened and hailed;
"New,! Near! Novel! Nifty! Now!" Notwithstanding
Old means and older ways. Always overcoming obstacles. Obtrusive. Even \\\\\\\\Overwhelming.
Log in. Log on. Leap light and long.
Online. On top. Outward bound. And on.
Go ahead; get it. Giddyup without
Yabbuts. You dare not be left behind.

 

Teaching
Each
Child
How
Nerds
Operate
Like
Other
Goofy
Youngin's

By Remus

By TR

T-Teaching
E-Ever-
C-Changing
H-Helpful
N-Networking
O-Online
L-Luxuries
O-Otherwise
G-Gathered
Y-Yourself

 

Tributes and Greetings from Wales on the Occasion of the Eisteddfod
Cyfarchion fardd, o Dalaith bell
Chwi wnaethoch gamp, yn wir
'Sgrifennoch bennill oedd yn well
Nac unrhyw un o'r Sir!

Anfonwn gyfarch nawr i chi
O Gymru, dros y môr
Llongyfarchiadau twym di-ri
Moliannwn mewn un côr!

Oddi wrth Elen

(Translation)
Congratulations, bard from a State far away,
You got the prize indeed.
You wrote better verse
Than anyone in the group*.

We send a greeting to you now
From Wales, across the sea.
With countless warm congratulations
We praise you all together.**

From Elen Huws (Science Department, School of Education, University of Wales Bangor)

* literally from the shire
**literally in one chorus or choir

 FOR THE NEWLY CHAIRED BARD

TECHNOLEG

This
Exceptional
Competitor
Has
Now
Offered
Linguistic
Excellence -
Gwych.

Llongyfarchiadau,
Gwyn(Pritchard) (Design and Technology Department, School of Education, University of Wales, Bangor)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Note: gwych means splendid, brilliant, etc.)

 

This is our poem about Technology:

 

 

 

Trees are the wood;
Electricity is the force;
Cars are the movement;
Homes are the comfort;
Noise is the sound;
Oceans are the waves;
Lights are the power;
Objects are the things we make;
Gifts are the presents from us:
You've got it made!

Gan Angylion o Dewi Sant.

 

 

 

Pob lwc yn yr eisteddfod i bawb. Good luck to everyone in the eisteddfod.
Infant Class 2, St. David's School, Mold.

 

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