A single firefly whisks away,
like a will-o-the-wisp to stray,
the sky is ebony dark,
the moon, a pearl of light, and
they stand, three sisters at the cave,
and wait for a sign, save
when they sigh
and pass along a single eye,
to tell the hero what awaits,
live or die, and
prophecies are fragile things,
if the banshee sings,
and the cauldron of rebirth,
stir its tides,
the light grows dim, and
the fates, they hide.
The web is spun,
wyrd has sung…
(c) 2011 Allen Simpson
Photo by Allen Simpson and Hanneliese Bredell. Taken at Lone Creek Falls, Sabie
Maart 9, 2016 at 11:41 vm
Lief jou woorde!!!! Dit lees perfek soos ‘n Pagan gebed of voorspelling en los ‘n aangename gevoel van afwagting )0(
Ek hou van die betekenis van die woord ‘wyrd’
‘The web is spun,
wyrd has sung…’
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Maart 9, 2016 at 3:30 nm
Dankie Hanneliese. Ja ek hou baie van die web of wyrd asook die betekeni in de noorse runestene van Wyrd.
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Maart 9, 2016 at 3:57 nm
Ek het ook gelees van die ‘Three Weird Sisters’ wat die Three Witches in Macbeth van Shakespear was.
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Maart 9, 2016 at 8:13 nm
Ja. Macbeth is my tweede gunsteling werk van Shakespear 🙂
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Maart 9, 2016 at 4:03 nm
Ek het gelees dat wyrd = to come to pass, to become, to due. Ook dat: Wyrd in the pre Christian era a Pagan deity was.
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Maart 9, 2016 at 8:13 nm
Interesant
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Maart 9, 2016 at 11:56 vm
Ek hou daarvan dat jy my altyd iets gee om meer oor te wil weet…..die ‘three sisters at the cave’ is die Godinne Clotho, Lachesis en Atropos wat beslis oor die mens se geboorte en lewe en nie die suster sterre Alnitak, Alnilam en Mintaka nie nê?
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Maart 9, 2016 at 3:32 nm
Die gedig is nie net geinspireer deur Cotho, Lachesis en Atropos nie maar ook deur Nemain. Babd en Macha (Hulle is deel van die drie-enige Godin Morrighan)
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Maart 9, 2016 at 3:08 nm
Baie geheimsinnige atmosfeer met pragtige bypassende foto,Wolfie!
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Maart 9, 2016 at 3:27 nm
Dankie bytjie ☺
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