Between Limned Halves ( Grimm Tale)

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Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

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0 posted 2010-09-28 09:59 AM

Half the moon owned the sky
As the other half lay with the shadows
Cast from far away in a languish of waning days
As marked the ebb of tides upon distant sand
Bereft of daffodils or calla yet bloomed

Wilhelm paused with quill to listen
As old again the tales being told
Blended within him too as his mind drifted
To the beauty of her sitting within the quiet eyes of dusk
Encouraging the ancient crone to speak on in
Another tale of cautionary gloom

Big teeth to eat you he heard
and scribbled with fine pen the lines
but found himself thinking of how it would be
to bind such fair skin as hers in silk
as he became the wolf that devoured her innocence
with a greedy tongue and slow words of pleasure
as he could not publish in a children’s tale
yet could scribe in a script of fingers
on the pale vellum of hip before erasing them
in whisper of lips and tongue speaking language yet born
to the half moon or imagined by the family Grimm
...............................................

I roused within the ache of lying too long
Upon the sinew and bones of old nights
To find dog-eared pages fanning with rustle
Upon breeze of open window as the waning moon
Shifted grey lace upon the words as they flip paged
into the dreams of Wilhelm and those I had of you

Groan of move stilled upon inhaled breath
Found light enough to add the lamp
So weak eyes could follow lines written such a long age ago
Of baskets taken forth while dressed in red hood
Old wolves prowled paths as led to glen
But my mind did not find innocence within
And wandered to the shape of leg beneath draping cape
As the canine heart beat in slow watch of you
Craving fruit crushed upon skin
Leaving breathless fair her who would lie with him

So shadowed realm of missive moon stalked
The tick and swing of pendulum
Stretching dark fingers under words that I might follow on
The tale between lines of Grimm with tired eyes
That bled bloodshot upon small shivers of pale lens
Till I had to rise and move pooled blood within legs
And relieve the ache of ages spent within dreams
And lines written upon white pages I soiled with dust
Then creased to float for some short while
Under the sky as she discarded her necklace of stars
And grew pale in skin
................................

Half owned by light of waning moon
Midnight passes yet again
and Wilhelm gathered up stained pages
daring to brush against her arm as he rose to go
then swore within he heard inhaled
a short take of breath as they touched
and her that was only of his dream
lean into him

Eusta B. Mae
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since 2010-05-03

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1 posted 2010-09-28 10:30 AM

I especially love your ending...you tell this well...enjoyed! ebm

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2010-09-28 10:36 AM

thank you Ms Mae... pleased you might find something in the story line and scribble that pleases... as for telling it well~ all I can say, is that you are indeed kind..

Amaryllis
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since 2010-05-20

Posts 1306
Mi now

3 posted 2010-09-28 04:12 PM

I am captivated, as always, Cpat... was waiting for Grimm's wolf to show his grin through the still trees...

Always knew it was there, passing behind the barred shadows like a wraith. I want to re-read this in depth when I have more time... there is so much, here...am so very rushed right now.

Best to you~
Amaryllis

katahdin
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since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

4 posted 2010-09-28 08:36 PM

OH MY! This was so captivating! Love your Grimm tales.

Kat >^..^<

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

5 posted 2010-09-29 07:36 AM

Amaryllis
It is good to see you back, if only for a moment or two you've stolen from all that is going on in your world..
many thanks for looking in on this, and I am glad it pleased in some way

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

6 posted 2010-09-29 07:37 AM

katahdin
Thank you.... I am glad it pleased in some measure and that the tales have not grown wearisome..

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