excersize #2

[Lylie]

Your list for this excersize is:

sun
feather
boat
white
horn

Lets see what you can come up with.

[curulambe]

Tad Williams rocks my world. With great respect
I offer this poor tribute to his art:

(The Boat Upon the Sea of Trees, she said,
Jao é-Tinukai'i. She spoke the truth.)

A feather floats upon the waterfall,
a handspan's drop into the glassy pool
which lengthens to a stream. It gently curves
beneath a slender bridge of birch and time.
Two members of this ancient polity
pause at the crest, the three-year game again,
where both must play to lose, for interest's sake.
White-crested, golden-eyed, they turn as one
to fix the youngling with an ageless gaze.
The beads of horn and glass click in their hair,
and wordlessly they turn back to their shent.
What power has a man before their kind?
Not for his eyes the fall of gossamer
against the curve of an immortal form,
nor for his heart the sun upon the trees.
Turn thou away, O man, thou stranger here.

(Her lips are warm and dry; they taste of mint.
She brought me to her brother, to this place;
I know that we shall never meet again.)

[gryphonpoet]

*Broken Lines*

Another mythological cliche, I
reached my feather-laced fingers
to touch the face of the sun.

As my enleadened future corpse
drifted with elephantine grace
back to my natural home, I raced

in my head with dreams of
a boat and its bony white monk
asking for his coins. Leave

them on my eyes and please,
once more tell me where
I can find the summoning horn.

[gryphonpoet]

OK... Attempt #2.

With the white-feather pressure from the sun
on my face, I smile a while from the sense
that this boat may sail 'round the storms of Cape Horn,
but I will remain at this tropical port. Dispense
with the courts-martial. Leave them undone
with the questions that will stay unborn
and answers on the tongues of the dense.

[artemi]

Eeyah... A tad harder then I thought it might be.

Seagull’s feathered calls,
As grand boats loose their sails,
And white sun shines bright.

The expedition sets off,
Sounding horns of adventure.