Poetic Conversations

[nerithedeerfairy]

they ask me where i am from i am a druid and am from all places
they ask my name, and likewise there is not one name but my essence is within all utterance
they cannot seem accept this, they already know who i am,
but they do not recognize me, though i am that,
never would i introduce myself as such,
in limitation,
though they are me as well, aye, who am i
all is one, if you know yourself then you know me, this is my true response.
we ask and meet eachother in an attempt to know ourselves which reflects everywhere in so many miraculous ways,
we are never without the true friend, for in them all
is the self and in the self is them all, and together we live and love and dance and together we slip into the sun of nirvana. we are one eternal spirit like the fire and the water, the earth, the air, and the cabbages.
seeing the self in all the world, we see the strength and love of the spirit, and can trust in the nature of consciousness, thus we live in harmony with tao and become the celestial supreme being, who is everywhere and all things, and the true state of all being, vogodie, free from illusion and limitation.

[RedKite]

Where are the Bards?.. for it is time
for them to chat to us in rhyme
Some time ago it was such fun
getting rhymes from everyone

Just checked to see who's doing what
...only me and Majestic [Bot]...
I tried to chat... but no reply
(Majestic robot of the sky!)

Google [Bot] has joined our brother
Do they now chat to each other?
Binary poems aren't much fun
just a load of zero and one

Now they've both gone, so it's just me...
trying to write some poetry
If you are out there... do please say...
It would really make my day...

[Mellinda]

So sad that you have been left here on your own
No one to too chat to for such a long time
Sorry but I’ve been away on my travels
So what have you done and were have you been
Have you now grown a long white silky beard

Over the years just you and the birds
Just talking to the stones and the trees
Bering in mind that there is now facebook
Perhaps everyone is chatting now over there
A pity as this was once the place to be seen

[Beorthwulf]

alas, it seems I have failed in my vow.
I swore to spend more time in this conversation,
And yet with my work and other things now,
Time has been tight and caused frustration.
I've had no time to sing or write!
No time to pick up my guitar and play
Unless you count those hours at night,
When the time should be dreamed away.

But now I'm working for myself,
As a teacher of ancient ways and stories,
I've ditched the plan to acquire wealth
And concentrate on all those glories,
That have previously slipped into the undone,
Fallen like russet leaves at summers end.
Returning now like the rising sun,
The voice of a long lost friend!

I'll be here more oft than not,
And see that you are too,
For the gift of Awen we have got,
To write the folklore of times new.
So poetic conversation might be a bit of fun,
Something to while away the time.
But I tell you I like it, and I for one,
Will continue to speak in rhyme!

See you soon, and see you often,
We'll talk in measured lines of verse.
Let us not find these pages forgotten,
Less our lives are proven the worse.
Lets bring the bards hall to life once more!
Make the rafters ring with raised voice.
Sing loud the tales and songs ancient Lore
And see who else joins us to rejoice...

[Mellinda]

Redkite have you flown away again
You started a rhyme and now disappeared
Have you flown right back up it to the clouds
Lost in a land of fluffy white down

Oh do please come down again
I waited for a reply to my rhyme
But that was a few weeks ago
Hello to Beorthwulf nice to see you are here

Have a nice day and don’t you go away soon
Can you howl at the moon and make Redkite
Come down from the clouds
As he started this off and now we are here.

[RedKite]

Melinda, 'my precious', don't worry yourself.
I'm down on the ground, and not stuck on a shelf
up there in the clouds, so please do not worry.
Getting ready to go to Glastonbury

I'm sure I've seen you there; from where you hail?
I'm just down in Cheltenham, not far to sail.
I fly down the M5, turn off at two three,
just fifteen miles more and then Glasters I see.

I do not have a long and white silky beard
I keep it cropped short because something I've feard
is getting it caught up on a barbed wire fence.
The visions of this make me far too tence

So I keep it short but my ponytail's long.
The wolves on my coat are all singing a song.
I am sixty five and I stand six foot two
So, if you do see me, please say 'Hi' won't you.

[Mellinda]

Redkite, Redkite you have flown down
From Cheltenham now nice
I’m from the land of Hobbits not far from Sara Hole Mill
I talk with a very funny accent I’ve been told
They call it Brummy now that is so silly
As I sound ok to me and my friends

Alas; Alas this gathering I’m going to miss
As I have a terrible cough and cold
My ticket is now just hanging around
In cyber space or in the postman’s bag at the sorting office
My friend is taking it back from whence it came
Waiting for someone to claim and call it their own

I’ve had to cancel my room with a loo
And my dinner with friends
Was so looking forwards to a curry Friday night
And the walk up the hill to the Chalice Well
On the cold Saturday morning at day break
Silently gathering at the Well gate

Now have to wait for the summer gathering
Seems such a long way a away at this time
As I look out my window at frost covered ground
I will not get my mistletoe this year from the hall
I will have to got to the local garden centre instead
But alas they don’t always have any for sale

So hopefully will see you flying around
Say hello as you pass me, next time
I hope you have a lovely time and don’t catch my cold
As I sit here coughing and sneezing
With a box of tissues and my head in my hands
Wishing I was down there in Glastonbury.