Words beneath a dappled sky

Through thankfully thick thesaurus!

I remember wrestling with the thesaurus for these, it's always a challenge to somehow cobble something together that still kinda-sorta makes sense.


( Deranged Denethor )
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( Merry Mithlond )
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( Leaping Legolas! )
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( Aragorn's Alliteration )
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( Eagle-eyed Elladan and Elrohir )
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( Gargling Galadriel and Cranky Celeborn )
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The Ae Freislighe is an Irish syllabic stanza form, and this is an attempt to render one in English:

Barrows

The Barrow Downs lie in the mist,
The wreathing wisps grasp the stones,
Call me now a pessimist
But this cold reminds of bones.

Long ago they fell beneath,
Dark the shades that crept within,
Heavy gold they shall bequeath,
Entrapping weight to stiffen.

Why did we stop, unthinking?
Now my plaintive cry resounds,
Answered only in clinking,
Far beneath the Barrow Downs.

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With it I'm placing a trio in the form of a Burns Stanza, named for the pattern favored by the famous Robert Burns.

( Not for Thee )
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( Eowyn Heals )
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( Grima's View )