[Warning hiss]

a riddle

Warning hiss–
Twist’d tail stings.
Snapping back,
Bright blood brings.

Servant to a Lady

a ballad

O minstrel, why do you play so sad,
Why so sad, I pray thee?
I pine away for a sweet young maid
A servant to a lady
A servant to a lady

One morning from the road I strayed
And wandered through a woodland fair
Then from within a sunlit glade
I heard a song upon the air

The singer sat beyond the stream
And washed her garments free of grime
Her hair alight with sunrise gleam,
She scrubbed, and sang to keep the time.

[In silver prison]

a riddle

In silver prison so it stands,
Its only purpose to be seen;
It learns its master’s every mien
With soundless lips and weightless hands.

Soft, and Close Your Eyes | Music

I’ve put my little quilt of words to music. Please enjoy!

[Silent bird]

a riddle

Silent bird in a seamless cage,
No feathers on its wing–
Blind and breathless, the longer it stays
The sooner it will sing.

Soft, and Close Your Eyes

a lullaby

Close your eyes and rest, my child
Let this song surround you
Let me weave a quilt of words
Soft and warm around you.

Daylight’s final drop is poured
Drink, to soothe your crying
May it sweeten all your dreams
Pure and satisfying.

The wind may weep between the trees
The wolf may mourn beneath the skies

Don’t listen to the wind, my child
Don’t listen to the wolf, my child
Hear my song and dream, my child
Soft, and close your eyes.

[It travels without feet]

a riddle

It travels without feet
And touches without hands;
With neither wain nor fleet
It crosses sea and land.

It’s endlessly on time
And though its gaze can kill,
Its kiss is often kind
And so we seek it still.

The Lay of Feresol

a song

1
In first of years, in sunlit lands,
Before the gods communed with men,
They fashioned stories with their hands
And knew no whit of word or pen.
Each mother’s child was mute of tongue
However oft they worked or played;
No name was said nor song was sung
Wherever they their homes had made.

2
In first of years, as night would fall,
The children danced in leaf and fir,
But one was only half as tall
As all her older brethren were.
They would not let her venture thus
Into the woods till she was grown
And so in sunset luminous
She stayed behind and danced alone.

[Seed of fire]

a riddle

Seed of fire
In gold and black:
When you bite
It bites you back.

[Jewels thrown down]

a riddle hail

Burst of anger – jewels thrown down
Break and scatter beads of glass.
Trampled in the sodden ground,
They catch the light and cannot last.