a monologue addressed to his axe Was a time I thoughtI could not get my boots soon enoughonto good firm rock again…And yet,here I sit,upon a kegonce full of Middle Earth’s best ale,with ye, my trusty Axe,leaning here against my knee–choosing the gentle rocking of a deck,over the fair and solid land I seeshining just …
Author Archives: Ciel
Tolkien Tribute: Blue Istar
So many ages he’s wandered, so many roads his footprints mark,in lands of many men and few, of hottest sun and deepest dark,He seldom speaks a word aloud, gives no greeting nor farewell,sings not, nor prays in any language any living soul can tell… Midnight-indigo, his old cloak is bound around him tight,a shadow in …
Tolkien Tribute: Melian’s Song
There’s magicin the musicthat dances on the air–Melian is singing!Maid and music,both are fair! A stranger,in the greenwoodpassing,hears,and pauses… Enchanted,Elf-lord reachesfor her hand…and theyat onceare one. There is magicin the meetingin the musicin the song… The worldis changedforever…andThe Songcontinues on…
Going Underground Again
The Subway Experience in New York City is, nowadays, quite different from the one I wrote about previously here. The cane-seated cars are gone, and I don’t think you can open the windows anymore as you could in those old cars. But they have air-conditioning in some cars. The outsides–well, graffiti has moved from vandalism …
Cult-Proofing
More and more parents & teachers are coming to understand this: Kids at every age need two things: connection and education. Because they will find them, and follow whoever gives them a sense of connection, and they will believe whatever that person teaches them. Cult recruiters know it. They have always exploited this dynamic: finding …
Disconnection
I dreamed a house… bright within and filled with folk,their happiness and quarrelsand blessings and trials,laughter and tears,and all the things of life as folk live it,and though I sought around,front and back and sidesseeking a door, even a window left ajar, no way in was therethat I could find. A feast I dreamed,lavish and …
Sea of Glass
Across the desert floor expanding, tide flowing…glimmering under blue skyshimmering with Sun’s blessing…This ocean’s currentsare powerreturning.
The Light in the Middle of the Tunnel
“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul, you have a body.”“What if we behaved as if the God in all life matters?”“You are special: And so is everyone else.”“Youth delights in cleverness; Age, in kindness.”“What you have is what you wanted most.” There are words that suddenly turn lights on, that wake us …
Tolkien Tribute: Dark Path
Darkness Thick, engulfing… Full of hunger, full of eyes… Terror Creeping near Among the tangle of the trees… Hunger Haunting, lurking Reaching from the midnight mirk… One pathway Safe-enchanted… Such a pity that you strayed…
Tolkien Tribute: The Deep Wood Stirs
Dark, dark the rich earth where our roots sink deep.Gloomy, the air where we reach towards the sky.Long, long the years we have stood here asleep;Diminished, our peace as the ages passed by.But now we awaken to realize the creepof tendrils of smoke, drifting bitter and dry:Our borders are breached and our enemies walkUnder the …
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