Listen to yon bonny bard,
Who plays his harp so sweetly.
Out in the green of the yard,
Come sit with me but meetly.
Strums and sings our history,
Does the man from old Dublin.
Tells us of the mystery.
Of our times now so troublin’.
Go get your bones and play them,
With our yon minstrel teacher.
It’d be a jolly good hymn,
To hear that snappy feature!
Ah..I dreamt of bards now gone!
Which leaves me a weary heart.
This world ’tis a shadow wan,
World of electronic art.
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The music is by Adrian von Zeigler and I got the link from Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, which is for today’s haiku prompt! So I will now do the haiku prompt…but the quatrain seeped in before the haiku.
Haiku
I
gentle lute playing
among birds in yon forest
sweet bright melodies
II
mysterious days
the kingdom of bards walking
among men teaching
III
barters song for speed
prefers illusion to light
dark age of wonder
IV
lost in dark wonders
far from nature’s heart beating
no bard now leads us
My first thought was probably influenced by the title…prophecy and the signs of global warming and our senseless pollution of the planet that continue to go unheeded.
Haiku
sun leaves earlier
chilling the world in darkness
wolf winds are howling
The prophecy of the death of autumn and the birth of winter, which was always on men’s minds throughout their existence.
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At Carpe Diem Haiku Kai…the first of a four part musical story by Adrian Ziegler.
Well…there isn’t much to say this morning. The weather, here in my valley has been cold but sun shiny so nothing to complain about! Looking at the news I’ve seen that the United States and part of Europe are frozen in with terrible snow storms…so I I’ll just be thankful my cold sunny valley and won’t even complain when the rain starts again.
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectlty acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity - Eckhart Tolle
Noreen Crone-Findlay talks about the crafts she loves with her friend, Tottie Tomato. They'll be sharing tutorials, how to's and step by steps for spool knitting, crochet, doll making, small loom weaving, wood working, paper crafts and all manner of other fun crafts. This is a family friendly blog.
Carpe Diem's Tanka Splendor is part of the Carpe Diem Haiku Family. It's a weekly tanka-meme in which you can write and share tanka inspired on a given prompt every Saturday (mostlty, sometimes it will be on another day).
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectlty acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity - Eckhart Tolle
Noreen Crone-Findlay talks about the crafts she loves with her friend, Tottie Tomato. They'll be sharing tutorials, how to's and step by steps for spool knitting, crochet, doll making, small loom weaving, wood working, paper crafts and all manner of other fun crafts. This is a family friendly blog.
Carpe Diem's Tanka Splendor is part of the Carpe Diem Haiku Family. It's a weekly tanka-meme in which you can write and share tanka inspired on a given prompt every Saturday (mostlty, sometimes it will be on another day).