A Wolven Battle Hymn
Gutteral growl cloves The darksome night serene As padded paws advance in droves Scarcely heard, more scarcely seen To war! They cry aloud 'A noble death! To make our forefathers proud! Till our dying breath!' Sharpen'd claw...
Sunstroke
We heard of him in fairy tales, Unfinished epics, songs in braille. From all ends of the ending earth We tracked him to this place. We each believed the others fools. But all believe: those are the rules. At last his trail, Like...
Evensong for Flock and Pack
Save me a place by the fireside, love, For nightfall's outrun me again. There's miles upon miles I must walk somehow, There's burdens on burdens I'm carrying now, And when I come home--which I will, I vow-- I'll be needing that fireside then. For...
And I Shall Rest
Sun going down. And I am far from home. Sun going down. And I'm out there alone. On the roads, I'm one more weary soul Searching for some place where I'll be whole. With my loaded backbone bending And the pain jolts up my arm. I will reach...
Cold Front
It rushes as it rises like a half-remembered hymn; a hymn to sing at evensong when hope grows dim.
The Holy Mountain of Vengeance
In the land of seven rivers, where the gates of death are builded, Stands a mountain (I can see it on the days when clouds are lifted) That is sacred to Odurum of the everlasting anger, (Who sets the forest blazing with his everlasting anger,) They...
Break the Circle
#34 of poetry i didn't even grow up with this hymn, but once having heard it, i couldn't leave it un-contradicted. i went walking by the harbor as the day went down to dark. i went searching through my sorrows for a place to rest my heart.
The Tribe Chapter 5
Skye," hymn ordered. the buckskin and the light bay-and-white mare rose to their hooves, shaking off the laze and the water. "galloping, hymn." the four raced to find the foals.
The Tribe Chapter 2
"yes, leader hymn." "now, go. you need some nourishment." chex nodded, going up the hill to eat some of the nice grass. hymn soon found herself doing the same thing, going in the opposite area and joining rasha, juan, and keanu.
The Tribe Characters and Chapter 1
Be with your foals and mate," hymn nodded appreciatively. "thank you, leader hymn." anémona bowed and trotted down the knoll. juan nuzzled her. "welcome to your home. it may not be like the forest tribe, but we will do anything to comfort you."
The Tribe Chapter 4
She turned around and walked up the knoll, leading toward hymn's cave. "just doing my part to help." laica nodded cheerfully, before approaching the leader of the tribe. "leader hymn, rasha needs to sleep.
Account of Presumed Ecstatic Experience during Initiation Rite in Unidentified Mystery Religion
It doesn't really matter how I died. Whether of time or tide or tiredness, But after this, the journey of my life I woke, to find myself in a dark wood. The way was lost, the night was long, and I Was more alone than I had ever been. It...