Matthew Anish Poet Ballad

Dancing Towards Middle Earth

Be light on your feet 
like an elf walking on snow 
    The terrors are real 
but to are the joys 
     O, wanderers in the 
wilderness
     Reach out your arms
Cast your fears away 
      The lights of the 
woodland elves are burning 
     merrily 
Dwarves continue to have great festivals 
With much ale and great slabs of lamb and beef
 The time has come 
    for us to join hands 
with the good folk of Middle Earth 
Sauron and Morgroth having been defeated 
We can take delight freely 
  in life's small pleasures - a glass of ale - a pipe out of doors
The new age is coming and some beautiful thing will be gone forever 
  but there is plenty of joy left in this age 
  The Age of Men 
Where Isildur's heirs 
   will lead all Middle Earth 
   to an era of unequaled peace and prosperity

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Michelle Mac Donald June 27, 2012 at 9:36 PM Oie, I'd read the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, twice! However that's a while back.:( Isilur, who cut the One Ring from the hand of Sauron. Perhaps some not so coincidental paradoxes with the present, Matthew, on a minor key? I had great fun reading this piece...thank you! I had been to a reading once in Westmount..I forgot to bring my poems, all I could think on was finding the right roads to get there, and the time. best wishes, Mikki :)

John Smith September 18, 2011 at 1:34 AM Middle earth rocks! We're stuck out here on the crust where we wait for that 'unequaled peace and prosperity.'

Nette Onclaud September 17, 2011 at 3:32 PM your tableau on middle earth fascinates me, JR, jr... much enjoyed, matthew...:) huggs, nette

Joe Maverick September 17, 2011 at 3:14 PM I see you are very conversant with the works of Tolkien Matthew, i am also appriecative and i enjojed the above write..