Emmy's Writing Journal

To the Guild Faerie Queen, Becki:
Dark to light
Cycles again
Light to dark
Start again

Seed to grain
Bud to bloom
Nighttime
Daytime

Nature cycles
And we grow
We live
WE learn
We know

Each bonfire
Has its meanings
Each omen
Gives us a likely future

We grow
We change
We understand
We try

Together
In our special group
We help
We hope
We live
We grow

ELH Summer2002, inspired by The Golden Compass series by Philip Pullman

Temptation Fruit
The Temptation--
Mother-Eve,
That fruit you ate--
The deep-read fruit--
Father-Adam,
Heart-shaped--
Was it not?

Not really an Apple,
But something more--
A Feeling -- A Wish--
Forever to be --
Forever Knowing --
Together--at last,
And Forever more

To know the Feeling,
The Desire
To feel the Other's Heart
Within your Own
A silent understanding

The little serpent--
That Dark creature--
Devil's Temptation presents
This beautiful Gift
A lifetime together
However, short, it may be

Disobedience--
A Key, a Knife
A little notch--
One small Bite
All it took
For Both to fall

Next time--
A new outcome
Forever to stay
Apart, but still One
Past Knowledge
Future Understanding
Merge as One
A new Republic -- made and begun--

A new beginning
Once again
Heart-wrenching Distress
A sweet Awakening
Deep within
The World anew
Without a Fault