Pendragon
09-01-2005, 09:02 AM
I wrote this under another pseudonym. Frankly, I try to keep my identity as private as possible. Jonathan Blade writes my Shadow Stories for http://www.spaceports.com/~deshadow/, Raven Darkendale write the larger part of my poetry, and Tobias Kirkwood my Ghost Stories. Enjoy the poem: :wave:
Message Found on the Ninety-nine Steps
Dreams are eldritch things,
Made from cobweb silk frantically stitched together
With the silver needles of desire.
The end result of this desperate labor
Is an ephemeral sheet that one claps closely about one’s trembling body
As the ebon teeth of night devour the sun
And one breathes one’s small sacrificial offering to Morpheus, son of Hypnos,
Lord of all dreams.
But one must beware,
For the mystic silver stichery upon the nigh intangible cloth
Holds spells both for good and for evil.
Well said the wise sage:
“Be sartain thou call naething up that thou cannae put back down!”
As you descend the ninety-nine steps into lower dreamland
Beware lest the singing of the silver call forth
The skeletal rider upon his fiery black mare
To run rampant the night away through your dreams…
Raven Darkendale
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Message Found on the Ninety-nine Steps
Dreams are eldritch things,
Made from cobweb silk frantically stitched together
With the silver needles of desire.
The end result of this desperate labor
Is an ephemeral sheet that one claps closely about one’s trembling body
As the ebon teeth of night devour the sun
And one breathes one’s small sacrificial offering to Morpheus, son of Hypnos,
Lord of all dreams.
But one must beware,
For the mystic silver stichery upon the nigh intangible cloth
Holds spells both for good and for evil.
Well said the wise sage:
“Be sartain thou call naething up that thou cannae put back down!”
As you descend the ninety-nine steps into lower dreamland
Beware lest the singing of the silver call forth
The skeletal rider upon his fiery black mare
To run rampant the night away through your dreams…
Raven Darkendale
Tuesday, May 17, 2005