SLUMBERING KNIGHTS

Slumbering Knights from days of old
Mythical Beasts; stories untold
Fact and fiction are bound as one
Truth is hidden by the earthly sun
Dare to see what’s before your eyes
Look to the heavens and beyond the skies
Rhyme and reason is no more
Illusion is bound on these earthly shores
Hear the story; read the rhymes
Take a leap right out of time
The truth is where it’s always been
Yet hidden deep within your dream
With the slumbering Knight
On the shores of time
With the mythical beast
No more seen…

 

January 2017

‘The Keeper of Scrolls’

Midnight’s Cusp

Who can fail to notice that the land is alive
And a thousand eyes that blinked through centuries
Still watch from the hillsides.
Who can not hear the breath of the forest
As night time closes in and the old ones awaken
Fresh from slumber.
Who can not feel the energy of the land
Instilled in streams, fields and ancient ruins;
The serpent paths; the energy lines.
Who senses the criss-cross ways of life
Hiding beneath the surface
Whereon our footfalls meander.
Who feels the power awakening
Within and without;
Ancient power, withheld to many.
Time and tide, my friends, reveals all
Upon a quickening breath of Earth Time
Where shadows fall and tomorrow calls
In a language known to few.
Listen to the winds; to those who writ our tale;
Sit upon the hillside and hear the whisperings
Of those who observe us.
With ear to ground hear the distant rumblings of mankind;
See a fading light as dawn approaches
Rich in a tapestry of a coloured cloak.
Yet all that is, all that was and all that ever shall be
Is but a tiny breath that was once born of a universal desire.
Upon the shore of time mankind twisted fate;
Never knew the land lived,
Never knew the forest breathed,
Never knew the ancient ones slumbered,
Never danced the Serpent Dance of life….
Cept you and i my friend;
We danced the dance with the old ones,
Felt their power,
Trod their ways,
Just you and i
On midnights cusp

 

 

moonwillow July 2016

The Beginning…..

 

We stood on the shores of time, you and I and gazed into the sunset as time ran out….

 

And yes we did finally meet as the tide turned crimson at sunset, just as you said we would. Yet it was your haunted eyes that glowed deeper than the tides; eternally like garnet flames……..you were silent, quiet and even though I hardly knew you I knew something was wrong. You knew something more – what was it? Was this the end or just the beginning? Your face did not change; you just stared into eternity as if it was  our future you saw on the horizon. The last day on earth; we knew this time would come; for everything we had ever known, loved or believed in had led us here to this frozen point in time.

 

But what now? How can this one moment become our future? You knew so much and said so little and I clinging on with an insane urge to survive still knew nothing. The sunset faded yet your eyes still burned and I knew at this point that I would never, ever see another sunset again. Why had I not seen your garnet glowing orbs before, those fiery orbs that now told me who you truly were and why you never shed a tear for the very last sunset here on earth?

 

I began to hear a distant roar and a tremor beneath my feet; everything around was rushing past me, memories, movements, actions, people, all going, all fading as the ground gave way and I found myself suspended in a time that never really was. I looked around in the gathering darkness, where were you?

 

Am I dreaming I wondered, was I to wake up safe and sound in my bed, still loving you yet never having known you for real. Or am I really riding the waves of time waiting to cross the threshold into your world. But where were you, where was the sunset we gazed upon? Where was that shore and why could I no longer sense you by my side?

 

And now I could no longer see those glowing orbs as the winds and the waves consumed me in a deep vortex of uncertainty. I craved the fire for myself; I craved to see your eyes again as the rains fell upon a land that no longer existed. Tossed upon the winds of fate I somehow held on until eventually the quietness came and I realized that yes this was the beginning.

 

And when all winds and rain had ceased and the quietness came upon all, I saw again from out of the dark skies, those two shiny red orbs seemingly coming towards me; those garnet, glowing orbs I knew so well. So I was not alone after all I thought and waited for your whispering voice beside me, a voice that filled me with hope and comfort. Yet it never came…. For as i peered out into the midnight coloured sky I saw indeed those bright orbs, shining side by side, orbs of hope, orbs of the future; beautifully placed side by side, the new twin planets of a new universe.