Spurned birds circle
fields weeping
for all that is good
in the world
gone
dry harvest
all the legions of the dead
strewn fallen scattered
let them seed
this world in the arms of their loved ones
the circles begin again
hearts cut in twain
by the reapers’ blades
hear them come
softly sweeping bare-footed
with the silence of a love song
to pile straw onto carts
the hallowed dead
ascending in a cloud of wings
spirits of Annwn fly over reaped fields
then down and under
circling circling
Lorna Smithers
Lorna Smithers is an awenydd, Brythonic polytheist and devotee of Gwyn ap Nudd recovering lost stories of the land and myths of forgotten gods and leaving Signposts in the Mist. She is the author of Enchanting the Shadowlands, editor of A Beautiful Resistance: The Fire is Here and a contributor to Awen ac Awenydd, Dun Brython, and Gods & Radicals.
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Lovely and evocative.
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Sometimes I wonder why I continue reading this blog……and so now I am reminded.
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