Sorrowing Nimrodel & Watching over Lorien
Dec. 18th, 2009 10:35 pmWhere has the silver maiden gone?
I was taken with Legolas' sad tale of Nimrodel and the stream named for her, one of Tolkien's many 'tales within a tale' that give his storytelling such depth. This is a 'shaped'/concrete poem on a simple scale.
With it is a poem experimenting with a ABba stanza, honoring Haldir and the others who spent so much of their time guarding their pocket of peace from the wars that surrounded them - this one could use some editing, I think, but has some decent turns of phrase.
Sorrowing Nimrodel
( Falling in silver whispers. A mourning )
Watching over Lorien
( Anathema that blood is shed Beneath gold canopy so sweet )
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I was taken with Legolas' sad tale of Nimrodel and the stream named for her, one of Tolkien's many 'tales within a tale' that give his storytelling such depth. This is a 'shaped'/concrete poem on a simple scale.
With it is a poem experimenting with a ABba stanza, honoring Haldir and the others who spent so much of their time guarding their pocket of peace from the wars that surrounded them - this one could use some editing, I think, but has some decent turns of phrase.
Sorrowing Nimrodel
( Falling in silver whispers. A mourning )
Watching over Lorien
( Anathema that blood is shed Beneath gold canopy so sweet )
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