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Bodger
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Tolerance for a short time

0 posted 2006-06-05 06:23 PM


His head buried deep in a cowl he approached the corpse of trees.

The rain sleeting down soaking him to the skin.

He pulled the cowl further over his face.

He called:

I call you Hawk because you see me
No matter where I am
Where I look I see your eyes
You tell me to nod
To smile
To duck
To come home
A wild day beckons
I don’t need your eyes
I need you
Here

Faintly he heard:

Only I can translate your vision
Your life on my breath
As Custom dictates

From beyond the hill and across the darkness, the words written in silence:

I am the darkness
I seek my maiden fair
In tattered and torn velvet dress
To be engulfed in hair
To feel her body warm
For me she wear’s no veil
Just eyes that stare ahead
And a face below the pale

Across the darkness silver gleamed in the moonlight as my lady joined me.

We touched noses in greeting.

My Lady changed back and settled on my shoulder.

They wait on the left she said, move in the light and down they expect you.   Your staff is too powerful to hide – the fire of your love burns within it.

I walked into the light hurling my staff high in the air where it joined the ash tree.

My Lady flew up in the air and towards the darken’d rest below.

The boy had returned but now a man.    Below should wait the Monk, Par Kee, Pril Loch and Midn Blue.

But first I had to reach the Rest.

The first rule I was ever taught was allow someone to hold you.   This immobilises them.  The second rule was someone hitting at my head to teach me to move before I was hit.

I jumped into the darkness and waited.

In the Earl’s Court the Chancellor sat as usual just below the Earl’s right hand.

The Chief touched his head to the floor and remained on one knee in salute.

Tell me Frey why am I worried about my Eastern Borders when you have some 2000 men at great expense defending them.

Dave

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Midnitesun
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Gaia
1 posted 2006-06-05 06:39 PM


one that begs to be continued
I saw a Gandalf type, only much younger
as he threw that staff at the ash tree

watching you from the treetops, I am
and urging you to fly with this write

and the title could be better, much better
take a good line from the write itself
perhaps, a wild day beckons



Bodger
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Tolerance for a short time
2 posted 2006-06-05 06:44 PM


Midnite

It is something that with luck I should in weeks be able to return to

I just wanted to share ideas, thoughts, dreams, fear, need and courage

Dave

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Gaia
3 posted 2006-06-05 06:53 PM


It's already a Dave fave.
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