Þe ðing about truð and wið lies Is þat boð are ðought often wið sighs We shirk from boð ðings Wið our heads neað our wings And yet we all claim to be wise Didn't quite understand? Þþ is the mostly dead letter thorn, which is pronounced as /th/ in words such as the, this, … Continue reading Þe Ðing About Truð
Poetry
The Thistle
Thistle, hearty flower, Resilient beyond end, You seem to be destroyed at times But still come back again Your armor is protective, A painful prick you'll give Because that is what you have learned You must still do to live Your tall, strong, slender stems and stalks One may cut down quite low But rooted … Continue reading The Thistle
Exceptionally Interesting
Two souls traveling Separate winding paths Through the wide world Found their paths crossed Here and there Along their trodden ways ⁂ She rolled along Day in and out Busily entangled by Turmoil and strife Never really quite convinced She was enough as she was Or she'd find her way through To the happy ending … Continue reading Exceptionally Interesting
Morning Star
When I lay down my head to sleep You softly shine your light Across the sky, your journey far, Watching though the night From west to east you travel through My darkest hours and then You welcome me in dawn's soft rays When I wake up again Before too long your light will dim As … Continue reading Morning Star
“Gawain & the Green Knight” ⁂ Classics
I've reread Gawain & The Green Knight this week for the first time in probably 18 years. If you're not familiar with this work, it is a lengthy poem with 101 stanzas (2532 lines) that was originally written in Middle English by no one knows who somewhere around the 14th century... we think. While I … Continue reading “Gawain & the Green Knight” ⁂ Classics
Fate
Fate will find a way To bring the dead back to life Blooming in the spring
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The mark upon the Hawthorn branch Points silently to the Oak Which alone stands within The very heart of the grove Carved upon the tree Sometime ages and ages hence Yet still visible but only for those Whose trained eyes know where to look For they know Who really is "Friend of my soul" ⁂
⁂ Asterism ⁂
Past, the star that dimmest shone, Still lit the sky with light so clear And bore its way deep through my soul Still lighting paths my life to steer ⁂ Present, the star that's flickered most, Teaching me of love and pain Grows still Wisdom's silvery threads In my heart, my hair, my brain ⁂ … Continue reading ⁂ Asterism ⁂
“If” ~ Rudyard Kipling: Classics
If... If you can go through this and say, "Yes! I can!" to every virtue described... If... If By Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting … Continue reading “If” ~ Rudyard Kipling: Classics
Throwing Pebbles
I throw pebbles at your windows When too silent you have been And you marvel at the things I know Despite what I have not seen . You throw pebbles at my windows And I wonder how you know Exactly what I need to hear To make my soul's shine glow
