The Wild Hunt
...The Wild Hunt
by Michael R. Burch
(King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been reported as ghostly hunters, near Devon, around Halloween.)
Near Devon, the hunters appear in the sk...
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Categories:
llyr, england, halloween, london, myth,
Form: Verse
The Pictish Faeries
...The Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch
Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men.
Only to dance in t...
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Categories:
llyr, fairy,
Form: Verse
Arthurian Poems
...At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
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Categories:
llyr, england, romance, romantic, true
Form: Verse
The Wrath of the Norsemen
...Finally by the blood of swordsmen
They reach the mystic shore
Torn by battle each parched tongue
Corrupts it’s enemy once more
Flesh and spirit torn then stained
In legend myth and tale
Blew ...
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Categories:
llyr, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Ballad