minstrel: Re: [NCB]: A poem for your amusement

[Aurora]

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Ben Tucker wrote:

> Hej, from Owen Alun
> 
> At our weekly meeting tonight we wound up having an impromptu bardic
> challenge (one of the locals had written a poem that he wanted to share in
> public at our monthly folkmoot, but he didn't want to be the only person
> with a poem to share -- thus he challenged me and some others to come up
> with something to present along with him.

	Greetings and salutations!  I also was there, received
challange, and have this to share- Perhaps the meter is none so good as
m'Lord Owen's, but one must start somewhere! =)  This poem was written in
tribute to our weekly Wednesday night meetings in Nordskogen:

  Wednesday Nights

 Quietly we file in,
Our day-weary souls asleep,
As through our mundane lives we creep
Surrounded by the modern din.

But here the gowns and crowns we see,
Eyes are bright, and garb is too!
For 'tis the old things that are new
In this, our Society.

 Here we dance in wantonry,
Here our victories are won,
Here our greatest deeds are done,
Here our spirits are set free!

And when at last the night is done,
And modern wear we don once more,
We hold the old times to our core,
As we file out, one by one.

	-Aurora of the East, Chronicler, Nordleigh.
 


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