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Swåmp¤Faerÿie
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since 2000-03-29

Posts 358
Illinois

0 posted 2000-03-31 09:50 AM

Lately i've been reading Tennyson's Idylls of The King,and probably my favorite chapter would be Elaine and Lancelot and although the basics are not totaly accurate,this is the way i see it......

She had a smile on her face.
She was clothed in whitest lace.
Her hair was fair,
like seas of gold,it sparkled there.
poor Elaine,on that dark river
his love,Lancelot would not give her.
So she wept & she cried,
the next day ,Elaine,she died.
Life was sweet,but death was sweeter,
sorrow was the friend to greet her.
In life she lost her love,
in death she rose above,
Rose above her broken heart
& from spoiled dreams she did depart,
from this earth she did cease,
in the barge,found her peace.
Her lifeless body carried forth,
up to Camelot in the north.

*Rest in peace,fair lily maiden*

And there she weaves by night and day,
a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson

Veil_Gypsy
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since 2000-03-27

Posts 44
Trapped in Veils of Starlight, and happy to be on my cosmic trail

1 posted 2000-03-31 10:44 AM

I simply love you airy fairy style its wonderful, and this is a lovely tribute to the fair Lily Maidain!!

Love Always

The Gypsy Bard

She is like a cat in the dark and then she is your darkness....she rules her life like a bird in flight...Bard Gypsy

John the cat
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since 2000-03-23

Posts 357
England

2 posted 2000-03-31 05:09 PM

Another lovely dreamy verse swampy..I love it.

twinsgd
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since 2000-02-13

Posts 416
Ontario,Canada

3 posted 2000-03-31 11:53 PM

You wrote a beautiful poem...tragic though.

ESP
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since 2000-01-25

Posts 2556
Floating gently on a cloud....

4 posted 2000-04-01 03:33 AM

WOW!!!!!! I like this poem very very much!

Love and hugs,
Lizzie

Swåmp¤Faerÿie
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since 2000-03-29

Posts 358
Illinois

5 posted 2000-04-01 09:01 AM

Thanks guys!!Twinsgd,if you read it out of the book it's better and SO much more tragic =P Personaly,i like tragedy!! You sould really check that book out if you haven't =]Thanks again everybody,you're all VERY encouraging =]

Swamp

And there she weaves by night and day,
a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson

wonderous
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since 2000-02-29

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6 posted 2000-04-02 11:57 AM

i love the way you write

childomine
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since 2000-01-25

Posts 818
st. petersburg, FL

7 posted 2000-04-02 12:00 PM

Very tragic and beautifully written.

...Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is....
Black Eagle
Oglala Sioux holy man

JOY 14
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since 1999-09-22

Posts 1419
Wisconsin USA

8 posted 2000-04-02 01:06 PM

I always have so much fun reading or watching something and then writing a tributing poem or just a poem for the fun of it about it! I really enjoyed this. I think I'll read the book actualy. You've inspired me for sure!

Joy

Swåmp¤Faerÿie
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since 2000-03-29

Posts 358
Illinois

9 posted 2000-04-05 12:54 PM

thanks peeps!!

And there she weaves by night and day,
a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson

Esmeralda Ponsonby
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since 2000-04-02

Posts 138

10 posted 2000-04-05 09:13 AM

This is most excellent Lady Faeryie it is most amazing what one can create from reading of a book.

Dennis L. White
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since 2000-02-17

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Michigan, U.S.A.

11 posted 2000-04-05 11:49 AM

SwampF, What a bittersweet narrative, love, rejection, release to peace! Your writting is a sweet song to me!WRITE-ON! Dennis :^)

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