zg_shadows | By popular request...

(Where 'popular' means '

castorlion')

There is a small prize for working out, if I'd added an extra verse, what its rhyme scheme would have been.

Waiting, we were, shadow-hidden
Waiting on another's calling
Restless spirits stillness-bidden

Gone before us, three went calling
Two to vouch the one hag-ridden
While she slept they suppered, stalling

Wolf at the door comes righteous striding
All risked for his thankless daughter*
Risked again to keep wolf's hiding

Bloody hell-dogs come to slaughter
Blinding silver, stern claws guiding
Clove re-knit flesh, onward sought her

Not alone.

Klaxons crowed their clarion clamour
Raven-guided, anger-fuelled
Up we raged the steel-caged tower

Spider's web with dew bejewelled
Grandma spun a cry of save me
Speaks in Riddles knew her cruelty**

He was the first.

Dazed she was found
Rescued, unbound
Carried away as raw hate pressed around

Fighting like crazed
Vision blood-hazed
Inka unfearingly into death gazed

East to her right***
And Western wind's might****
No storm could defend her*****; together they died

Lost ones released
Brother and beast
Streamed out till in thunder the building... just ceased.

Thanks to Manyskins-rhya.

Great was the cost.
Summer turned frost.
We wait to find out if we won or we lost.

*Katrina has a tendency to change this line when her Uncle Kazimir is within hearing distance
**Anyone going 'What the fuck?' will be treated to Native American poetry by way of explanation
***Scott's Stargazer
****Anthony's Wendigo
*****Grandfather Thunder; she was a Shadow Lord