Fire and waves
and football
forged
this mountain peak
Y daith did not begin with four Cymru goals
it began when these menywod hanesyddol were
girls in baggy kits
who dared kick a ball for the first time
and it began with our first steps of 1973
and it began with the rebel girls of P.E.
To the child she was
Rhiannon says believe
We have scaled these ancient rocks
this untread path
wrote our own map
the wind will carry through generations
Each goal a summit step
gave our bodies for the apex
hearts pounding under red shirts
finding infinity in the embers of 90 minutes
to be the first to stand on mountaintop
Do not measure us in anything
but each step we have taken in studded boots
and bucket hats
Rhian says
Something is impossible till it isn’t
Trailblazing in ash
Her footprints we followed on Yr Wyddfa rock
Liv says
Up here, it feels like a movie
Wonders when it will feel real
Folk heroes with ponytails and
Cymru written across hearts
have climbed to be at one with the sky and the stars
Gethin says
he heard for some, the top of a mountain
is a place of worship
we found nefoedd
through pel-droed
We are on the top of Wales
which is to say, the world
Rydyn ni yma
We are here
At last
Sarah McCreadie
Cymru EWRO 2025 Poet