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Witchsong Trilogy (yep, repost for the season) |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738
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and plant one foot upon the earth the other will be washed by tide as fire plays the dance of mirth. Stars will gather in my hair lightning loosed by chant of tongue gather herb in fold of skirt quickly while this day is young. I free the night from heaven's rule. I greet the golden orb. Walk with me into the wood I tell will ye tales of yore. "Children of the gatherers! We remember ways of seed-- here there is no finger's blame-- the only path beneath the feet. To stray is but a following-- shadows stroll behind a lead-- I caution you, don't follow me. But I pray you'll meet me there." Here is parting of the ways for truth is something you must find... so meet me in the forest--deep-- there you'll find a gasp of sky once shaded by the branch of oaks-- two which cradled witches souls graves of sister sacrifice memorial to burning times. "As above is so below." Keep this vow of witch's rede: "As ye harm none, do what thou wilt" remembering that will is free... Gather berries on the way, herbs and flowers for the feast. Meet me at the opening in the center of the wood. * * * Part II (Into The Wood) silent sacred solitude the mother cushions soles of feet-- I enter under canopy I enter blood's divinity there the snake becomes the wheel swallow tail's eternity ouroboros is calling me deep into the mother's womb. Patterns pulsing pointedly the father is a lantern's light dappling in black and white giving vein to leaves of tree-- the wind in shake of tambourine branches quake in giggling like geisha blushing behind fan... There--I spy a shape of leaf-- I stoop to take just what I need here, there is no need of greed-- I leave the plant and it re-seeds to feed another's traveling. I pick the berries black and wild-- smiling when the bite weeps red juices on me reconcile bleeding proof that I am wed. Bloodstains on the marriage bed witness union of divine-- water changed into the wine watch me stumble in the wood tripping over oaken root-- I have found the centered sky. * * * The Clearing Part III Grace-- a ballet in my bones even in my awkward toes Grace-- a tilting of one wing wobbled flight pinfeathering-- this brown wren can fly. How could I? I pray--tell me-- deny the sky in beckoning the bright of Him so cradling arms in span and loving wise begging me to sing again-- applauding this bedraggled child? So I stepped out from the wood in the meadow grasses tall spears of yellow turning green-- technicolor healing glee this time mother welcomed me-- This time there was no wailing wall. Butterflies and bumblebees dragonfly of lavender sparkles dervished in my eyes spiral mystic from the sky reminding me of Gatherers-- I wanted them to see this too. So I picked up branch and twig and bundled them in circling around the trunks of fallen oaks. I twined the herbs of borrowed time blessed them, "make ye heady smoke" Praying friends would find the way-- for I cannot feast alone. I sat in wait upon the trunk of the huge uprooted oak, the other stood there skeletal split in two by lightning dark wood splintered in accuse: "You rest upon a sister's grave." Shamed by this admonishment I sat cross-legged on the ground, and there I prayed until I dozed-- dreaming I was wren in flight. * * * |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Amazing!!!!  |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Thank you witchyone..I needed to see this one more time. Blessed Be. Love ya lady~ ~Time has cast a spell on you, |
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Nightshade 
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Oh yes! Thankyou Karen. This is so wonderful. I hadn't put it into my library the first time that I read it, so now I can! Gleeeee!!  Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
This reads different to me than the first time I read it. See? You took my hand again Karen, no, you watched me walk as I read that path, being oh so careful as to not disturb the sleeping. When I finished reading, I thought to myself . . . I thought she COULD fly already . . . *smile* The second part blew me away, the berries, the wood, the wed and the blood . . . (and this is far beyond my simple words) you deserve one red rose for this, Lady, and I am tossing it . . . |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Ohh I loved this part! There--I spy a shape of leaf-- I stoop to take just what I need here, there is no need of greed-- I leave the plant and it re-seeds to feed another's traveling. and this part! Grace-- a ballet in my bones even in my awkward toes Grace-- a tilting of one wing wobbled flight pinfeathering-- this brown wren can fly. I can't wait to read this to Tori, she is going to have a feast of words going through that imaginative wee head for sure!  You dear friend, write with a feather's touch and leave the imprints of rocks! (Whatever the heck that means LOL.) |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Sighhh...you make me giddy. Incredible, just incredible. amazing  me ~i want for myself your trembling~ |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
amazing My spirit will rise |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Actually this would be a great poem for EVERY season..why does everyone think witchy poetry is only for Halloween?  |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
I can think of no one more qualified to write this...or more talented. This is such a wonderful piece of writing in so many ways. You are awesome....awe, and then some. |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
I think both Poet & Deer have said what I would........applauding this piece. *hugs* ....jo |
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