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Choose the last line!

Postby MistyNightWind » 11 Aug 2010, 09:11

This isn't stricltly speaking the last stanza, but the last stanza to be written.

I'm writing a poem for Yule and for one line I have 2 ideas and cannot decide between them. Since I am writing this poem with the Druid and pagan communities in mind I couldn't think of a better place to seek advice. So I hope you give your opinion.

Mistletoe

Ice and snow cover the Earth
Nature says, 'stay at home
By the fire of the hearth'.
Now is not the time to rome.

So on this frosty Yuletide eve
We burn the Cailleach Nollag
And song and laughter we weave
In the light of the Christmas Hag.

And we feast and we drink sweet mead
As we relish, (on?) the sacrificed Earth
Now in death, but we know will seed
(Once the Earth stirs into rebirth/The bloody Holly know no rebirth)

Under Druid blessed mistletoe
We kiss as the Sun begins to grow
Because on the deepest, darkest night
We celebrate the rebirth of light!
"Only when the last tree is cut, when the last river is polluted and when the last fish is caught, will people realise that they can not eat money."
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Re: Choose the last line!

Postby MistyNightWind » 12 Aug 2010, 17:50

OK, not to worry I've sorted it now, and here is the final poem, incase anyone is interested:

Mistletoe

Ice and snow cover the Earth
Nature says, 'stay at home
By the fire of the hearth'.
Now is not the time to rome.

So on this frosty Yuletide eve
We burn the Cailleach Nollag,
And song and laughter we weave
In the light of the Christmas Hag.

And we feast and drink sweet mead
As we relish, on the sacrificed Earth,
Whose now in death but we know will seed
Once awakened into rebirth.

Under Druid blessed mistletoe
We kiss as the Sun begins to grow,
Because on the deepest, darkest night
We celebrate the rebirth of light!

:acorns:
"Only when the last tree is cut, when the last river is polluted and when the last fish is caught, will people realise that they can not eat money."
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Re: Choose the last line!

Postby wyeuro » 14 Aug 2010, 06:37

well done! :applause:
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Re: Choose the last line!

Postby MistyNightWind » 17 Aug 2010, 21:37

Thank you :D I'm pleased you like it!
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Re: Choose the last line!

Postby seabhac star » 17 Aug 2010, 22:57

Hi Misty! :tiphat: Great poem and I love what you chose and how you worked it into your poem! Thank You for sharing... :)
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Re: Choose the last line!

Postby Nikki 2 » 18 Aug 2010, 10:39

Geat poem mistyNightWind. I like it.
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Re: Choose the last line!

Postby MistyNightWind » 25 Aug 2010, 13:18

Thank you all so much :D it is so nice to have ones work apprechiated and liked :cloud9:
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Re: Choose the last line!

Postby Teileag » 25 Aug 2010, 18:39

I'm a bit late... but I like it, too!! :hug:
The sounds of the winds in the elms
like the strings of a harp being played,
the note of the blackbird that claps
with the wings of delight in the glade.

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Re: Choose the last line!

Postby MistyNightWind » 26 Aug 2010, 21:43

Thank you Heike! :hug:
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