The spell

Falstaff · Mar 19, 2009, 04:27 PM

turn the soil on a fallow field
a single torq of gold it yield

bits of bone crumble in calm
of my dirty hands within my palm

from ancient sleep this dream was told
beyond the word was spoken and heard

among the tales of legends of old
kingdoms of men in a land restored

beyond th dream of mortal being
brave men fought and died

I can see the seeing
and cast these bones aside

this place, this hour, this moment in time
a reflection of the past

this dream, this thought will remind
when long ago a spell of glory and sacrifice was cast.

what felled the trees, what felled the mighty and the tall
what buried them here to be revealed again

to recover within, the laughter and songs in oak hewn halls
the laughter, the life and dreams of mortal men.

in peace may they rest again.

Tyrsonswood · Mar 19, 2009, 06:54 PM

Very good....... Like the subject matter AND the way you put it together..... excellent

Falstaff · Mar 20, 2009, 02:03 AM

thanx..
walking around Thetford the plow and wheel toss the contents of ancient graves and reveal the hordes of coin and weapons that men left before history was written here.
Almost everywhere, old flint knappings and crumbling walls are mute testimony to the age of Roman and Saxon occupation. In the mist you can still see the moss covered walls of Norman ramparts and Saxon forts.
This is a very old land.
children play where blood was spilled a thousand years ago...
men stagger home from pubs and bars down rutted pathes that cross the old territory of Kings and Lords before the age of chivalry.
Great men ruled this land and did not relinquish their grasp of it, till death.
The history of the UK is replete with conflict, invasion, subjugation and magic and mystery..
if anything save the cry of the Kestrel or Hawk echo in the mists...
its the enexorable movement of things..
of time
and decay.
Its almost as interesting as Ireland...
but not quite..
not by a fair distance..
but it is intriguing..
and its my home now.

Tyrsonswood · Mar 20, 2009, 08:35 PM

Never been there, the UK, I've read about some of it's history which is why i'm drawn to your words. If I were there I would feel the "magic" or whatever one wants to call it. I can feel somewhat the same thing on Native American lands here. Like my place I had in the mountains, but much of the US is just..... I don't know..... "dead"? It just doesn't have that same feeling of "history" anymore.

Falstaff · Mar 21, 2009, 01:54 AM

you just have to see it..
the Mountains of Scotland
the lush green fields Ireland and Giants Causeway
the crumbling walls of English manor houses and lost villiages of Iceni tribe.
Once, Britain and France were joined together and ancient peoples tavelled between the Faroe Islands all the way to the edge of Spain..
it must truly have been a remarkable place.
I used to watch a televsion program when I lived here before, called "Saxon".
It wasnt bad, and the acdting was typical for UK dramas at the time, but worth a watch even now I think.
I know a woman, a Holistic healer that lives in a great haunted manor house on the edge of a field adjacent to Castle Weeting, and within the soil are just millions of bits of human bone, turned by the blow until they are barely discernable. She finds old coins and bits here and there but she leaves it alone, and its been picked over by the metal detecter folks and Time Team already. But in the forest is an old stone hunting lodge that predates the Norman Invasion, and it truly has borne witness to much more dramatic times.
If you watch the Father Caedfel mysteries or have ever seen it with Derek Jacobi, then you know what I a talking about.
I want to get back to Scotland and Ireland this summer and take more pictures. It should be a wonderful experience and I have given up trying to blend in..LOL
if you have seen King Arthur, filmed in 2004, the you have seen Ireland and Wales and a bit of Buckinghamshire...truly wonderful places.
if you have seen Tristan and Isold, that was filmed in Ireland and the Czech republic and is absolutely wonderful.
if you have seen Braveheart..that is entirely Scotland and Ireland..another really "landscape" movie to me.

~~RE III - Frankie~~ · Jul 8, 2009, 02:23 AM

Nice poem. It sounds like there is bounds of history there. My Mum's mum is from England and she's always talking about the castles and such in England and Scotland. Eventually when my parents have saved the dough we'll be travelling that way for sightseeing. Maybe check out the castles.

Falstaff · Jul 18, 2009, 05:09 AM

I have lots of pics of castles, but I imagine many people are tired of them I think. I enjoy some of the contemporary ones with museums, etc. But I love a small one called Bodium Castle and of course Warwick, Liz and I went there several times on romantic holiday and walked the trellesed gardens. If you like I can find some pics of a few castles and post.

Tyrsonswood · Jul 18, 2009, 07:03 AM

love castle photos, If you post them I'll be checking them out, any ancient structures actually.

Falstaff · Jul 25, 2009, 06:38 AM

I am on the mend here soon, and I getting a van with more room for myself and my equipment. I look forward to being on the road soon and able to travel without bothering my colleagues, I shall get some castle pics soon.

GigaWatt · Jul 27, 2009, 05:45 PM

wow, that's pretty intense...

looks like some sort of metal song lyrics...

have you ever released some sort of a poetry book, or is this just for fun...?

Falstaff · Jul 27, 2009, 08:06 PM

We have a Physicians Assistant that livs near Weeting and her landlord turned a plow last year and found bits of bone, jewelry, rusty sword hilt, etc. but it was a disturbed burial in a field, etc. He could have reported it but chose to keep plowing and raising crops, etc. Our PA invited me to the land around her house and we saw a collection of things thet have turned up, It might as well have been in a museum, wonderful things in a box with an old tacked brass lid.
I sat and turned the bits and bobs and wondered who wore them last. The flint arrow heads napped out aa though it was yesterday. The green metal bits here and there. An old Army soliders uniform button. A tin box. An old bottle from the 18th century. All if remains not far from where it was buried or discarded.
Before recorded time, this land has been occupied, and beneath the soil everything is consumed by the earth. Corupted, oxidized, rotting, rusted and crushed beneath the plow of a farmers tractor, it all returns to what it once was. Until somethiing is tossed about by the steel blade of a scythe or swather, its all swallowed, like the the legacy of those before us, inevitably.

Mar 19, 2009, 04:27 PM	#1
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 18,143 Rep Power: 131	The spell turn the soil on a fallow field a single torq of gold it yield bits of bone crumble in calm of my dirty hands within my palm from ancient sleep this dream was told beyond the word was spoken and heard among the tales of legends of old kingdoms of men in a land restored beyond th dream of mortal being brave men fought and died I can see the seeing and cast these bones aside this place, this hour, this moment in time a reflection of the past this dream, this thought will remind when long ago a spell of glory and sacrifice was cast. what felled the trees, what felled the mighty and the tall what buried them here to be revealed again to recover within, the laughter and songs in oak hewn halls the laughter, the life and dreams of mortal men. in peace may they rest again. __________________ The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

Mar 20, 2009, 02:03 AM	#3
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 18,143 Rep Power: 131	Re: The spell thanx.. walking around Thetford the plow and wheel toss the contents of ancient graves and reveal the hordes of coin and weapons that men left before history was written here. Almost everywhere, old flint knappings and crumbling walls are mute testimony to the age of Roman and Saxon occupation. In the mist you can still see the moss covered walls of Norman ramparts and Saxon forts. This is a very old land. children play where blood was spilled a thousand years ago... men stagger home from pubs and bars down rutted pathes that cross the old territory of Kings and Lords before the age of chivalry. Great men ruled this land and did not relinquish their grasp of it, till death. The history of the UK is replete with conflict, invasion, subjugation and magic and mystery.. if anything save the cry of the Kestrel or Hawk echo in the mists... its the enexorable movement of things.. of time and decay. Its almost as interesting as Ireland... but not quite.. not by a fair distance.. but it is intriguing.. and its my home now. __________________ The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

Mar 21, 2009, 01:54 AM	#5
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 18,143 Rep Power: 131	Re: The spell you just have to see it.. the Mountains of Scotland the lush green fields Ireland and Giants Causeway the crumbling walls of English manor houses and lost villiages of Iceni tribe. Once, Britain and France were joined together and ancient peoples tavelled between the Faroe Islands all the way to the edge of Spain.. it must truly have been a remarkable place. I used to watch a televsion program when I lived here before, called "Saxon". It wasnt bad, and the acdting was typical for UK dramas at the time, but worth a watch even now I think. I know a woman, a Holistic healer that lives in a great haunted manor house on the edge of a field adjacent to Castle Weeting, and within the soil are just millions of bits of human bone, turned by the blow until they are barely discernable. She finds old coins and bits here and there but she leaves it alone, and its been picked over by the metal detecter folks and Time Team already. But in the forest is an old stone hunting lodge that predates the Norman Invasion, and it truly has borne witness to much more dramatic times. If you watch the Father Caedfel mysteries or have ever seen it with Derek Jacobi, then you know what I a talking about. I want to get back to Scotland and Ireland this summer and take more pictures. It should be a wonderful experience and I have given up trying to blend in..LOL if you have seen King Arthur, filmed in 2004, the you have seen Ireland and Wales and a bit of Buckinghamshire...truly wonderful places. if you have seen Tristan and Isold, that was filmed in Ireland and the Czech republic and is absolutely wonderful. if you have seen Braveheart..that is entirely Scotland and Ireland..another really "landscape" movie to me. __________________ The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe. Last edited by Falstaff; Mar 21, 2009 at 02:00 AM.

Jul 8, 2009, 02:23 AM	#6
~~RE III - Frankie~~ BANNED Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Castle Mansion Paradise 113 Posts: 1,200 Rep Power: 0	Re: The spell Nice poem. It sounds like there is bounds of history there. My Mum's mum is from England and she's always talking about the castles and such in England and Scotland. Eventually when my parents have saved the dough we'll be travelling that way for sightseeing. Maybe check out the castles.

Jul 18, 2009, 05:09 AM	#7
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 18,143 Rep Power: 131	Re: The spell I have lots of pics of castles, but I imagine many people are tired of them I think. I enjoy some of the contemporary ones with museums, etc. But I love a small one called Bodium Castle and of course Warwick, Liz and I went there several times on romantic holiday and walked the trellesed gardens. If you like I can find some pics of a few castles and post. __________________ The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

Jul 25, 2009, 06:38 AM	#9
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 18,143 Rep Power: 131	Re: The spell I am on the mend here soon, and I getting a van with more room for myself and my equipment. I look forward to being on the road soon and able to travel without bothering my colleagues, I shall get some castle pics soon. __________________ The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

Jul 27, 2009, 05:45 PM	#10
GigaWatt Now In Color :D Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Macedonia, Skopje Posts: 2,073 Rep Power: 58 System Specs	Re: The spell wow, that's pretty intense... looks like some sort of metal song lyrics... have you ever released some sort of a poetry book, or is this just for fun...? __________________ It's not schisophrenia... it's just a voice in my head...

Jul 27, 2009, 08:06 PM	#11
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 18,143 Rep Power: 131	Re: The spell We have a Physicians Assistant that livs near Weeting and her landlord turned a plow last year and found bits of bone, jewelry, rusty sword hilt, etc. but it was a disturbed burial in a field, etc. He could have reported it but chose to keep plowing and raising crops, etc. Our PA invited me to the land around her house and we saw a collection of things thet have turned up, It might as well have been in a museum, wonderful things in a box with an old tacked brass lid. I sat and turned the bits and bobs and wondered who wore them last. The flint arrow heads napped out aa though it was yesterday. The green metal bits here and there. An old Army soliders uniform button. A tin box. An old bottle from the 18th century. All if remains not far from where it was buried or discarded. Before recorded time, this land has been occupied, and beneath the soil everything is consumed by the earth. Corupted, oxidized, rotting, rusted and crushed beneath the plow of a farmers tractor, it all returns to what it once was. Until somethiing is tossed about by the steel blade of a scythe or swather, its all swallowed, like the the legacy of those before us, inevitably. __________________ The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.