Vanya Evangeline Poet Tercet

Notes About The Poem

This poem is inspired by Norse mythology, telling the story of the creation of cosmos and a shadow to its final fate, Ragnarok.

The lore of Norse mythology strives on the endless cycle of conflict and chaos, beginning from the very first form of existence arising from a conflict between ice and flame, and the nine worlds being forged from the corpse of the first sound, Ymir. I thought this has some parallels to the secular cosmology, in which the universe apparently emerged from a destructive event (i.e. the Big Bang), and life and civilization developed from endless battles of the "survival of the fittest".

https://norse-mythology.org/tales/norse-creation-myth/

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Song of Frost and Flame

The world was born of ice and flame
Of crystal drops that filled the empty plane
When Muspell's heat burned Niflheim

And life unraveled from the endless stream
And formed a voice whose name was Scream
Where shapes spilled out from his unseen dream

The waves then rise to cast new sounds
Soft yet gentle, the vibrant hums
Freed more life from their icy bounds

Defrost, the Aesir thus came to be
The first of which was so-called Búri
Whose son then wed and begat three

The three then warred against the Scream
For they saw no good inside his dreams
His pores sweat venom in boundless streams

That primal Scream thus fell down and shattered
His flesh and bone, all torn asunder
Which then were used to forge all matter

Henceforth came an age of craft divine
New worlds were built, 'til there were nine
Bound by Yggdrasil, their verdant spine

Yet discord hangs across the cosmic loom
Weaving prophecies that foretold gloom:
What bore the world shall be its doom

War and death had shaped Yggdrasil's roots
And destruction echoes within its shoots
Thus, war and death shall be its fruit

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