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Hollow Castles
In days of old
great kings built castles
and fortresses of stone,
watch for hearth and home,
but those are all gone
and time has tolled.
Glory has past
the legacy faded,
by the leaf and vine
with line wane and ended,
the spirit diluted
they could not last.
Castles hollow
void of kith or kin,
all gone are the guards,
their fellowship lost
abandoned to time,
in gloom wallow.
great kings built castles
and fortresses of stone,
watch for hearth and home,
but those are all gone
and time has tolled.
Glory has past
the legacy faded,
by the leaf and vine
with line wane and ended,
the spirit diluted
they could not last.
Castles hollow
void of kith or kin,
all gone are the guards,
their fellowship lost
abandoned to time,
in gloom wallow.
Published 5th Apr 2021
Author's Note
Entry 5 for NaPoWriMo2021.
The line of Elendil is faded in The Fellowship Of The Ring.
Yet emptier still, seem the lines of glory of our world. Crowns replaced by Companies, yet still age old scourges remain unchecked.
The line of Elendil is faded in The Fellowship Of The Ring.
Yet emptier still, seem the lines of glory of our world. Crowns replaced by Companies, yet still age old scourges remain unchecked.
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5th Apr 2021 4:16pm
I really enjoyed this piece. It has that ineffably English midsummer melancholy about it.
5th Apr 2021 4:29pm
Indeed; the Sun shines and reveals many edifices of stone. But bugger me; we don't seem to make the great things anymore. Its all virtual and vacuous, or good-enough: no true force of will and vision.
5th Apr 2021 6:26pm
This has a nice equipoise of gravitas and a lilt of rhyme. It reminds me of the melancholy beauty of ruins, rust patina and broken things, how we can view the passage of time in them.
5th Apr 2021 9:42pm
Ruins covered by growing weeds has a melancholic and bittersweet beauty: that the earth will outlast us but some part of our legacy might remain.
Personally I dislike rusted things, seems to be a recent dislike: rusted metal speaks too much of a death of an item or vehicle or building, as rust often means abandoned and unrepairable.
Personally I dislike rusted things, seems to be a recent dislike: rusted metal speaks too much of a death of an item or vehicle or building, as rust often means abandoned and unrepairable.
8th Apr 2021 9:49pm
