No wind stirred the skeletal branches that night, or the ground fog that lay in the hollow,
And wither the leprous full moon spilled her light, did a murder of shadows there follow,
Stumps of old marble and granite forgotten,
Broken, and layered... – by MJM Wagner | 323 Views added 10 months ago
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I once forsook the sun and moon, and sought the land of mist,
Enchanted twice by Hermes’ boon, and by the naiads kissed.
Across the opalescent sea, and o’re those mountains high,
Where dreamers dare not wander free, and Elohim won’t fly,
I found... – by MJM Wagner | 346 Views added 12 months ago
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Fern and moss and lichens green,
Gilded in a sun bright beam,
Fairy gold and emeralds gleam,
Along the wooded way.
Twilight under brilliant blue,
Mortal cares in here are few,
Only one, I would that you,
Were with me here this day.
Out... – by MJM Wagner | 84 Views added 9 months ago
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A vivid vision came of elder days,
When next I fast and deeply dreaming lay,
A city built by men, and looming o’er,
A pillared temple on a lofty tor,
And there within that thing I did behold,
That door to death and endless darkness cold,
... – by MJM Wagner | 8 Views added 7 months ago
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In space and time, by cryptic forces bound,
As often lost or hid but always found,
By many names announced in many lands,
The Stone of Erech, Hell’s Gate, Loki’s Hand,
The Eye of Dread Anubis, Merlin’s Door,
The Bridge of Fear, it was in arcane... – by MJM Wagner | 46 Views added 7 months ago
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Again I slept, and guided, dreamed the past,
And saw that door to spaces dark and vast,
In caverns deep below the landscape hid,
Beneath a mighty slave-built pyramid,
Where learned priests in robes of white and gold,
Pursued a baleful power... – by MJM Wagner | 3 Views added 7 months ago
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A breath I saw of foulest night congealed,
That stayed when dawn the blessed sun revealed,
A deep unbounded black, by aught unlit,
With strange malign awareness marked in it.
From distant lands and eons past it came,
Why then this gripping fear... – by MJM Wagner | 48 Views added 7 months ago
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In dreams I sailed my ship across the sea into the west,
And through the Straight of Chokmah where the seabirds never rest,
And thence unto an unknown land where hanging orchids bloom,
Where diamonds glimmer in the sand, and night-eyes in the... – by MJM Wagner | 46 Views added 8 months ago
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The fat cat on the mat
may seem to dream
of nice mice that suffice
for him, or cream;
but he free, maybe,
walks in thought
unbowed, proud, where loud
roared and fought
his kin, lean and slim,
or deep in den
in the East feasted on beasts
... – by J. R. R. Tolkien | 13 Views added 9 months ago
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When the moon was new and the sun young
of silver and gold the gods sung:
in the green grass they silver spilled,
and the white waters they with gold filled.
Ere the pit was dug or Hell yawned,
ere dwarf was bred or dragon spawned,
there were... – by J. R. R. Tolkien | 100 Views added 9 months ago
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The wind in the crags made a high keening wail, like a banshee that calls to the dying,
As over the pass came the reavers of Bale, and above them the gorcrows came flying.
Ten score and three of the bravest of shiremen,
Stood in the path of their... – by MJM Wagner | 17 Views added 9 months ago
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Out Of Reach
I stand upon this lonely shore, and gaze across the sea,
Its waters far too deep and wide,
And not ship that will abide,
To carry me to thee.
I linger here, and pensive brood, and cold wind blows the while,
To chill... – by MJM Wagner | 16 Views added 10 months ago
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A vision she was of a midsummer’s night, with the silvery moonlight entwining,
Her grace was entrancing, her song soft and bright, in her eyes were the elven stars shining,
Luthien Tinuviel’s likeness returning,
Born ere the Third Age had waned,
... – by MJM Wagner | 22 Views added 11 months ago
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On waters still and never seen
By light of sun or moon or gleam
Of silver lanterns hung by harbor’s gate
They wait.
Golden ships with midnight sails
That never stir to Earthly gales
But with the chill from looming mountain heights
Take... – by MJM Wagner | 92 Views added 1 year ago
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