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Poetry News Post #701

Tiriel and the Nymph

Written by: Nature's Apprentice, Zemeckis Swiftpaw
Date: Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Addressed to: Everyone


Tiriel lay, near the end of day
on the sandy shore of Aori bay.
As his eyelids fell with the setting sun,
he passsed into vision that left him undone.

Through muted Autumnal shadows fell
a sound of flute, of pipe, of bell.
Turning his head to the sound, left and right
he saw there a glimmering light.
And in the light a Nymph or Angelic being.
From this one the glimmering light came,
and the music and leaves the same.
It was not as if she came from the trees,
but rather as if they brought her forth on a breeze.
And in that moment, his heart was lost to immortal seeming.

Leaves floated upwards, and she danced upon them.
Tiriel moved not, lest she see him.
The sound of music, it was her voice.
A symphony of instruments in Angelic chorus.
And ne'er could Tiriel find love with mortal born.

He awoke in the morn where had lain down
and in his mind could still hear the sound,
of immortal voice and see her loveliness.
And he would ever thought it a dreaming caress,
but for the bloom of lavender in his hand forlorn.


Penned by my hand on the 1st of Aequitas, in the year 525 AD.


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