1 I was dreaming I was strolling over verdant grasses, rolling through a garden, most pleasing to the eye 2 all around me there were flowers in blossom laden bowers and a forest, just beyond […]
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death and I
Death and I were having tea, a little bitch and chat, when he offered me some cake… “You know I can’t eat that!” “Don’t you trust me?” Lord death grinned, still proffering the tray. “You – I trust,” I took a piece, “I guess I’m odd that way.” He laughed and settled in his […]
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I am the tiny apple seed I’m the gnarled apple tree I’m the blossom and the tart-sweet fruit I’m the man who eats of it I’m beasts that feast on every bit I’m the air that trees and creatures breath I’m the lightning strikes it down I’m rain that washes ash to ground I’m […]
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Well, you sit there, baby, talking, yah, I see you move your lips but I guess I must be punch-drunk – guess I took too many hits Cause seems to me you’re saying that the two of us gave up But that aint how it went, boy, so it’s time you just shut up And […]
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sun’s setting walk – forgetting lose myself along the street heart pumping nerves thrumming skin’s glistening in the heat hips swaying some guy saying where you goin’? Girl! You’re sweet! eyes staring skirt’s flaring being ‘woman’s kinda neat magic growing without knowing find my mojo in the street
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Meave, the queen of all things fey from her beauty hide away for though to catch her wins a kiss ’tis a deadly sort of bliss bathed in moonlight ‘neath her tree he who sees her cursed be none on life is half as fair as she with fiery copper hair eyes of azure […]
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A maiden was fishing the river one day admiring the sparkle of sunlight at play upon the waves that rushed by the shore and lost in the sound of the great river’s roar ( 2) good fortune was hers and she soon had a catch and was casting […]
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Mother Earth and Father Sun Night is ending, day’s begun And in this moment we all meet I thank you for this life so sweet To all my many deities I offer up my fealty I praise and greet my ancestors My honoured, bless’d, progenitors I thank you all and bless you too For […]
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One evening as the sun went down I wandered onto hallowed ground ‘Long a path ‘tween silent stones That marked the rest of dust and bones As the shadows, slow, unfurled And dew, upon the flowers, pearled I spied a tree of such great grace It seemed a monarch of its race From roots […]
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One night while Death was on his rounds he found her in the burial grounds a gothic girl as pale as he with hair of silken ebony supine upon a granite tomb her milky gown lit by the moon All the ages spent alone then weighed upon his weary bones so that he craved to […]
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