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Hi, all, long time no post. Thought you'd like to hear that I will be appearing in a local amateur production of Shadowlands, a play inspired by C. S. Lewis's autumn-of-life romance and marriage with Joy Gresham a.k.a. Joy Davidman. Most of you will know the story but for those who don't...

The Ruba'iya't of Aba-Nazar Awake! For Winter on the Shortest Day Flings playful Snowballs bidding Care away, And lo! the Beech-log on the Hearth ablaze Bids us prepare to make the Yule-tide Gay. You all did know how I - the Famous Grouse - Divorced old Humbug Christmas from my House, Banished...

The Song Of Ebenezer You shall hear how Scrooge the miser, How black-hearted Ebenezer, He the grasping moneylender, He, sharp-witted man of business, Learned to keep his Christmas rightly, Learned to please its mighty Spirits, Learned the meaning of compassion And for fellow-men the caring...

My elf-bard of Middle-Earth has been at it again. This time he is visiting Rohan, about 60 years after the War of the Ring, and performing before the now-ancient King Eomer: The grass grows tall and waves beneath the Sun In all the pleasant pastures of the Mark - Land of wild steeds that never...

(thank you, Pam Ayres.) Here's a verse form I'd never tried until recently, a sestina. It's a highly formal kind of verse which doesn't rhyme exactly - rather, the line-endings switch over from verse to verse according to a fixed pattern, which I'll leave it to the reader to work out. It always...

It was all on a sunny evening, after the heat of the day; Cloudless and blue the skies were, merry the month of May. Lambs in the meadow were gambolling, birds sang in all the trees, And scent in the air hung heavy from blossoms a-buzz with bees. There sat a saint at his verses, his back to the...

It is a King and his courtiers that are at their ease; and the King disporteth himself at the play of chess with his champion. But when the champion hath nearly given mate to the King, there ariseth a dispute over the rules of the game, and the champion saith thus, and the King saith so, and...

Just noticed these two thread titles one after the other... White Which=kirtle Lady? Stupid, Stupid Question... :D