Post by Adam on Jun 25, 2009 21:37:11 GMT -1
just spent a fortnight with once estranged family in Canada. Unfamiliar gods, in ways that nowhere in Europe has ever been
On the shores of lands
of unfamiliar gods
I tread, unsure foot
Across stone and rock
Each miss-step announcing my presence.
Birds and beast speak
An alien tongue, beaks utter
Beasts stutter and howl.
There are spirits here,
Fragile folk
With canny traps and games
To frame my thought
Though I fought to keep
Mind free, it was easier to see
What they wished me to see
And listen to the barbarous names
Of the mountain and winds
On the shores of lands
of unfamiliar gods
I tread, unsure foot
Across stone and rock
Each miss-step announcing my presence.
Birds and beast speak
An alien tongue, beaks utter
Beasts stutter and howl.
There are spirits here,
Fragile folk
With canny traps and games
To frame my thought
Though I fought to keep
Mind free, it was easier to see
What they wished me to see
And listen to the barbarous names
Of the mountain and winds