NIMUE ( the pool)

 Nimue,

Are you there?

Are you keeping your secrets ?

Guardian of the pool

Conductor of fools,

Protector of the waters,

Let me throw you my sword

Along with memories 

Gathered with cobwebs

On life’s journey

Deja vu visits 

As I wander through verdant fields 

Feet in a babbling brook,

Castle walls calm and gnarled from the fight.

Fade with grandeur into the night.

Nimue are you there?

Can you hear me ?

Reveal to me your beauty,

Reveal to me your wisdom

A thousand years you’ve slept

Watching over the dawns

Conjuring the mist from the mirror

Illusory form of the deep.

Excalibur I return to you

I have no use for it now,

Take it before I plunge it to my heart 

I have held it high

Dulled the blade in many fight

Nimue, please wake,

My tears mix with the waters 

Raise your hand like you have before

Catch what I throw

Keep it safe for others

For I must go.

26/07/2022  23:15-23:40

SUMmer EVE

 Leaden summer skies filled with swifts and swallows

Skipping over the hedgerows 

Fresh cool air on my face like a linen sheet 

Purple grass , of gossamer clouds at my feet

Sun horizon boiling  illuminates the oaks 

casting orange clouds 

As fierce as the forge at the hands of creation

A still, still air of silence cloaks

The moon , a slit of light 

Suspended in the blue

Like a crack in a door,

Inviting us to the other side 

Bright shafts , beaming the invitation, as before.

Knowing not where it leads 

Generations wonder

What’s behind the glimmer 

The Siren silver , pulling me in

Through the feather crescent .

Drenching shimmer forever present.

Ever above is, ever below,

The moons ghostly shadow has us in tow,

Draws us in to its shine

Like tides of endless time forth and back

Mystery of what’s behind the silver sabre crack.

03/07/2022 00:05-00:40