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Feb 19 2016, 1:20am
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Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our regular monthly feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. Each month we will feature a small selection of the poems submitted, but we hope you will read all of the poems that we have received here in our Great Hall of Poets. So come and join us by the hearth and enjoy! If you have a Tolkien/Middle-earth inspired poem you'd like to share, then send it to poetry@theonering.net One poem per person may be submitted each month. Please make sure to proofread your work before sending it in. TheOneRing.net is not responsible for poems posting with spelling or grammatical errors. One Hobbit, 13 Dwarves in 6 (inspired by Peter Jackson's version of The Hobbit) by The Gry Elf Here's a thing no respectable hobbit should endure: a plague of beards hungering at their home-sweet-home door oh so blithe they barged in laying siege with mayhem sudden calamity served for my dinner hour Withered fig trifle and Bree cheese gone in a blink nineteen kidney pasties they washed down with malt drinks olives dunked in a treacle keg every spare crock of fish eggs Dratted dwarves! They'd be game for trollish gobble-ings! Just dreary dregs with nary a crust left for me a victim am I of Gandalf's hospitality the rhubarb wine's now in peril no help is an empty barrel Imagine if they discovered my second pantry!! Earthenware jugs sit in a row, drained and capsized here bitten spoons, there roughly handled iron knives Vexing presumptuous gnomes, why don't they all just go home? Then boots began to stamp and bold voices to rise .... Glinting blue buzzed past me -- t'was my best bread-butterer! Then prized plates launched hand to hand like skeet through the parlor saucers and tea cups flew forth and back in wondrous symmetry each one stacked at my "service," laughed they, juggling dishes with sly words Though dumbstruck, I plucked up my Tookish courage once more as the brass-throated dwarves ended their roistering roar just invite my guests to de-party put this misadventure behind me -- hold on -- whose thunder is pounding my treasured green door? ~~ * ~~ Seasons of Silence or A Fragment of Turin's Lament for Beleg by: Briony L Death is - Death is a daily occurrence, as Autumn is sure, when oaks are shorn of leaves of gold that litter the ground. Yet I thought that a thousand Autumns would pass unperilous on our present Earth. Blizzards follow, billowing and freezing - we hope for healing when hyacinths blow and beauty blossoms in Spring. Then sails the sun in Summer before Fall. I am sorry, my love, that silence lingered on my lips. My love lessened never though seasons went by with certainty and my life was littered with lies and hate. I dwelt on death and destruction as the years yielded to ever-turning time. My tears are tainted with blood now as I kneel in never-ending regret; I've regained regions of my mind and heart I once handed to hate, but now I'm back they're blank and black with neglect. My lips have loved too late, the words I silenced are sick with sorrow and death. My silence is as certain as the seasons, as sure as the tumbling tide and the turning years. Dearest, darkened by death, my love forever lasts through falling leaves and loneliness. ~~ * ~~
(This post was edited by entmaiden on Feb 21 2016, 1:41pm)
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