VOTE! 2010 IMBOLC/LUGHNASADH LONG POEM ENTRIES

[Earthwoman]

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[Mellinda]

The Soul is ageless, only the flesh grows old

The Soul

Oh
When I was young
And the world was new
Life was one long journey
New, full of wonder and dreams
Oh
Where have all the days gone

Never thought that I'd grow old
How the long years have flown
Funny, I still feel young inside
Oh
Where have all the weeks gone

Long years of knowledge, gathered,
Stored, filed, and sorted in my head
Funny, I still feel young inside
Oh
Where have all the months gone

I don't like looking in the mirror now
The years are etched upon my face
Funny, I still feel young inside
Oh
Where have all the years gone

I'm old now and I'm getting very tired
My hair it has now all turned grey
Funny, I still feel young inside
Oh
Where has all my life gone?

The years have now all gone
Where are you taking me!
Where are we going?
Please tell me!
Oh
Do tell me please

I see a bright Light
What is that light, shining in the dark
Oh I’m born again
Oh I'm young again,
Oh
Such wondrous things to come.

Poem by L F Tallis ( Mellinda)
New Verse & lines added 2009

Copyright © 2002-2006-2009-2010

[Mellinda]

Cold Blue Shivering Moon

Oh shinny shivering moon, looking so pale and cold
Goddess forever racing across the heavens
To catch your lover, who is just out of reach
You see his fire and feel his heat
Forever chasing but destine never to meet
The race to catch time itself
But there is no time to make amends

You look so sad, no smile upon your face
Stares twinkling like teardrops all around
You catch a glimpse, your heart is aching
Now you must depart, dawn is breaking
You send a kiss, a brief warm feeling felt
You heart frozen in time that can not melt
A shadow now across your face

Now pale cold Goddess you must descend
The God of fire once more ascends
Words once spoken, forever now between
Who is the strongest and fastest one in the heavens?
Both now ruling your own lonely place
Words like knives that cut so deep
“I am….”; “No I am…”; “No I am”

Was it worth all the pain?
What did you both expect to gain!
Two lovers now torn so far apart
One feeling cold rejection and a broken heart
One hot and on fire, with burning anger
Forever chase each other across time and space
Only ending when time itself decides to finish the race

Time; make no mistake will call… “Enough is enough “
Then no longer on their endless race
Time to make amends, for words once said in haste
A fire so hot that it will melt a frozen heart
Drops of water from a heart so cold, to quench the fires of rage
Turning them into smouldering embers
Then the lovers once more may embrace


By L F Tallis (Mellinda) Copyright © 2010

[bohemian]

GRAND MOTHER

I remember, four years old,
Playing on my grandmothers doorstep.
Jumping over the granite slab,
Her call to be careful!
Memories still strong now
From a lifetime ago.
I remember her love.
I remember my love.
The plants growing in her living room,
The pigeons in the back yard,
The glass of flat coke at her bedside.
I remember the day she left me.
And knowing she hadn't left me.
Mother of many,
Hers was the hearth which called to us all
Where we all gathered
On that last day.
She walks with me now,
She is in the valleys and the hills,
When I walk with my eyes open.
She is in the temples and quiet places,
When I am alone, but not alone.
She is the flowers of springtime,
She is the joy of summer,
The bounty of autumn,
The family bonds of winter.
My guardian.
My companion.
The beat of my heart,
The flow of my blood,
She is in my bones.
My Goddess.

[acornspirit]

Lines of Power

Thirteen billion blackbirds
perched in three straight rows, and
calling from above, these
shafts so vertical, like
tree-trunks without leaf or limb.

Calling from above, to
show the cross-beams, as a
serpent crucifixion
tied with wire, wrapped in lead.

Thunderous silence, sudden--
now the crosses sprout with
fluttering, flying leaf-wings
calling me to listen--

Ancient oaks, their branches
twisted, turning, and in
all directions giving
praise and thanks: the sturdy
earth, the breath of breeze, and
raising bouqueted hands up
flowing forth in all directions,
liquid branches tracing
unseen pathways through the air.

Then to see it--
perfect wholeness, spreading
spherical perfection,
all-heal perched among the
twisted branches as an
offering, rich and fertile,
tree-gods hailing sky-gods
speaking without wires--
womb of goddess, seed of god.

[Oran_ap_Beith]

A Passing judgement..

"Look at that weirdo sat there on the log
What's he doing in the woods
He don't have a dog
Look at his long hair
I bet he abuses
with a social state handout
to buy the drugs he uses
He looks like a freak, he looks out of place
sat down amongst trees, must be off his face
A looser ,a waster, a big lazy slob
he shouldn't be here
he should have a job"

And passing they fix him a cold hate filled stare
But he didn't care
for his I wasn't there
High up on a mount or deep down in the sea
by Sun or by Moon he becomes a Birch tree
Or flying so high as a being of air
free from all worries all hangups all cares

Not passing a judgement whilst walking a dog
on someone he cant understand on a log

He wishes no harm on one living thing
just loves sitting back to watch nature sing
In the love of his mother and the horned one
bringers of all life under the Sun
the magic of father and mother his glee
he worships them daily through earth stone and tree
drinking earth mothers power by day
the return of one of an ancient way
In service of Spirits who dwell this fair land
he lives a way they can't understand.

Why do they feel they stand above
those who choose to live for love
Why do they think that he is mad
When he is happy and they are sad?
Judge and jury there they stood
In the Ancient sacred wood
If only the trees could hear them too
I wonder then what they would do.

[Earthwoman]

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