neath the tree sat a norn
one of three, shears in hand
crowned in nature’s floral fare
and wisps of ancient silvered hair
she has no care of god or man
no interest in some scriptured plan
bad and good have equal weight
when measured in the hands of fate
haggard with majestic grace
timeless lines crisscross her face
she’ll give no clue, no reason why
just cut your line when time to die
Categories:
norn, earth, fate, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
I OPENED A DOOR
TO THE SOUND OF LAUGHTER.
UNSURE WHERE IT CAME FROM
OR WHERE IT WENT AFTER.
IT MOVED THROUGH THE AIR.
AS IF IT HAD FORM.
I HAVE TO ADMIT IT.
THIS WASN'T THE NORN.
I LOOKED STRAIT AHEAD.
SAW A PURPLE ISH TREE.
NOTHING OR NO ONE.
OTHER THAN ME.
I WALKED TOWARDS THE TREE.
SAT ON THE GROUND.
INHALED THE BEAUTY
AS I LOOKED ALL AROUND.
THE TRUNK WAS TALL.
MAYBE FORTY FEET HIGH.
FROM WHERE I WAS SITTING
IT REACHED INTO THE SKY.
THE BRANCH'S WERE MANY
IN EVERY DIRECTION.
THE LEAVES WERE SQUARED
AS I SAT THROUGH RECEPTION.
A WARM GENTLE BREEZE
STARTED TO BLOW.
THE SQUARED PURPLE LEAVES
SHIMMERED AND GLOWED.
THEN I HEARD IT AGAIN.
THE SOUND OF LAUGHTER.
AS IF IT WERE RUNNING
FROM THE TREE TO HEREAFTER.
THE FEELING OF BLISS
SWIRLED AROUND
AS I WAS SITTING
ON THIS HOLLOWED GROUND.
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Categories:
norn, adventure, beauty, celebration, creation,
Form: Free verse
I am subject of your objections
your majesty
let us cloak ourselves
in the moral fabric of religion
and make believe we're royalty
present an image to impress
a new age novelty
a dying breed of humanity
we knock at empathy's door
beg entrance to the light
gained only from the price of
a thousand lost souls
in their luminescent flickerings
of goldfish in a bowl
a pisces paradise
invading parasite
beguile thy emerald isle
fornlorn the jagged shores
of Erinyes and Norn
feigning faint, a bulimic trick
how we stumble and trip through these doors of perception
by divine intention
a moral invention
you can swallow your god pill whole
but I still prefer to chew
Categories:
norn, angst, faith, history, imagination,
Form: Lyric