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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Within these dark dread hills I fear</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">Are shadows lying deep and drear<br />Yet by the beck is green and bold<br />White Water Da</span><span style="font-size: 130%;">sh to me behold!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Cascading down the mountainside<br />Towards the mere where secrets hide<br />This hidden place of mystery<br />Dark shadows cast by the wind-blown tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">The light is failing below Dead Mans Fell<br />And the river flows down into the darkened dell<br />The desolate valley stretches wide<br />In the mist and rain by the riverside.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />So within these dark dread hills I fear<br />Where shadows lie, foreboding near<br />But by the beck 'tis green and bold<br />White Water Dash take me, take hold!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 78%;">Written at <span style="font-style: italic;">the Back O' Skiddaw</span> November 1997</span></span></div>
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Alex Langstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03233247785468335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565917920554198755.post-65597322828020591882010-10-09T03:09:00.000-07:002012-02-07T11:00:32.698-08:00Ascending Orb of Bloody Night<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:180%;" ><a href="http://luciferbridge.blogspot.com/2008/09/ascending-orb-of-bloody-night.html"></a></span><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> <div class="post-header"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1aya-31OXbZ96OfOOKqXBI_ht5303mHrwZ_WWB-_TGCEg-eF6GN6XcZQ4vYP-Pltt_2YZb6rBrdxd_0AYaUXjif9jQ2mDIGsh95c5KI4ZgNRc2hwJ1Sn9gHUU4YaHxkI8lkI-hdZ1ybQ/s1600/19+03+11+008.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1aya-31OXbZ96OfOOKqXBI_ht5303mHrwZ_WWB-_TGCEg-eF6GN6XcZQ4vYP-Pltt_2YZb6rBrdxd_0AYaUXjif9jQ2mDIGsh95c5KI4ZgNRc2hwJ1Sn9gHUU4YaHxkI8lkI-hdZ1ybQ/s400/19+03+11+008.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706469793114606978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;font-size:180%;" >Ascending Orb of Bloody Night<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">The Ascending Orb</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Of Bloody Night</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Transfixes me with</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Dark delight.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">And Black <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Tiamat</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Is drawing near</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">In her monstrous cave</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">We cower in fear!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">And the bloodied moon</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Lights our way</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Into the amethyst womb</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Of dark dismay</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">Equinox mother</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Looming bright</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Night-mare comforter</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Of eternal night.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">The crimson moon</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Sails the bitter sea</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">With viscous veins</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Slowly <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">dr</span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">owning me.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">The pivotal point</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Of balance nears</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Magnifying all of</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Our dreams and fears,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">Terrifying creatures</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Of the dreadful deep</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Lure me into a</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Fitful sleep</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">And the moon still</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Shines on the salty sea</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Beneath tentacled monsters</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Unnerving me.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">The nautical</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Undines</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">sw</span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">imming</span> near</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">The sullen song</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Of the siren instilling fear,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">Whilst white Gulls flap by the</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Breaking surf</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Their screeching cries</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Abounding mirth?</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">The receding moon illuminates</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">The indigo night</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Equinoctial tides rise</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">with magnetic might.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">Invoking primordial <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Nammu</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">From the chaotic realm</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">From deep watery beginnings</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Standing by the helm</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><span style="font-family:courier new;">Of the blood stained moon</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Which perpetually shines</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Upon the deep sinister waters</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Primeval, divine!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style=" ;font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" >Octave of the Autumnal Equinox 2008</span></div>Alex Langstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03233247785468335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565917920554198755.post-65751773441405234412010-10-09T03:07:00.000-07:002012-02-07T11:08:23.859-08:00Helena<div style="text-align: left;"><a 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bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-family:courier new;">Helena</span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Divine heavenly host</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Sent from above</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Beyond the veil of dreams</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Helena, ghostly instiller of beauty</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">In this green and beautiful</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Valley, whence</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">The quicksilver river flows -</span> <span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Camel of the west</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Great snaking river</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Moving through the</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Sacred enclosure</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Of your divine intervention</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Landscape Sovereign of</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Ancient place</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">The elbowed river</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Travelling towards the north</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Silver-singing artery of life</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Running from the misty upland moor</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">To Atlantic rollers crashing</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Against the massive darkened</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Sea-stained craggy serrated cliffs</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">This secret celestial valley</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Sanctified, soft and peaceful</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Hidden site of blissful repose</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Fed by the old straight track</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">From other places, abodes and realms</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Lady of dreams</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Light up the morn with</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Your ancient light</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Oh Lady of sunrise</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Goddess of sunset</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Take us to your eternal home</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">The secret space from</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Whence you perpetually reside</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">By the flowing river, where the reindeer hide</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">In your esoteric time-spun enclosure</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">At the edge of the wild gorse-tangled upland</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Of the arcane sea-clad Celtic fringe!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Holy Helena, treasure seeker</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Truth inspirer, love desirer</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Nature's finest resurrection</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Autumn leaves glow introspection</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Natural spirit come to me</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Eternal quester, confider, jester</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Nature's soul-womb eternally,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Quietly found in this</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Iconic medieval landscape</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">By mill and trackway</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">You travel by half-light</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Manifesting through dreams</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Where once you were queen</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">O'er the bridge which spans</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Your waterway bright</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Sylvan spirit</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Light of light!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">The cosmic dance of river flow</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Elfin track and wind strewn rain</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Find us, teach us</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Take us back</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">From whence you came -</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Our landscape lady Elen ran</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Through the ancient roads where life began.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Oh Helland Goddess of the</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Green-track, guardian of the antlered ones</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Show us your story, your mystic ray</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Spreading light and joy through the endless day!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >Helland Bridge, August 2009</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></span></div>Alex Langstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03233247785468335422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565917920554198755.post-66827985608666078362010-10-09T03:01:00.000-07:002012-02-07T11:32:04.656-08:00Dionysus<a href="http://www.yurileitch.co.uk/"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 189px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxxjcKk6rf6uEgmV6wGiqLbviUmIf2TwYqXVp20msyPJHv55idsGkRacqQvhThKj1Xsta77YgtRTjMHYKzQnYJpE1fdPx0fxYM7hK0ZKaD3vXW1bW_-rvAn9xwrXhgqLFYjCfyIEFTOU/s400/neo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706475046633796258" border="0" /></a><div class="post-body entry-content"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;">Above: Neo Oberon by Yuri Leitch</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;font-size:180%;" >Dionysus</span><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=" ;font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;" >Masked and robed with vegetation<br />In a clearing he stands<br />Inspiring poet-prophets and madmen<br />From far-distant lands.<br /><br />Deep in the forest<br />By the vineyard clearing,<br />Dancing in ecstasy<br />Temperature searing.<br /><br />Naked at the temple<br />One upon one,<br />Metamorphosis:<br />Entwined eternal!<br /><br />Tumultuous God Dionysus -<br />Revealer of dreams,<br />Within his theatre<br />All is not what it seems.</span><span style=" ;font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></div></div>Alex Langstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03233247785468335422noreply@blogger.com0