Books Completed in August 2014

I finished the pre-edit draft of Annual 13—365 Days of Poetry this month. It is on schedule to being edited, formatted and uploaded on time. To celebrate the occasion, here’s one of my favourite poems from the night of completion:

 

The Fairy and the Pixie Flew

The fairy and the pixie flew,

through the grass tops,

o’er the stream.

Flew they low,

and hard,

and swift,

small wings beating,

hearts a-fit to burst,

to save the goblin king.

Why strove they to save his life,

to bring the light,

back to his eyes?

Why flew they

so hard,

so swift,

hearts fit to burst,

wings fit to split?

Why did the good of fairy kind

strive to save an evil line?

To save the goblin king they flew,

hard and fast,

swift and true.

To save his kingdom, and their own,

to keep the right kings on their thrones

to keep the good,

o’er power to sway,

to keep the evil,

from the day,

the pixie and the fairy flew,

swift and hard,

fast and true.

And saved they the goblin’s life,

preserved his child,

preserved his wife,

and thus was the Dark-Bridge Treaty born

that keeps the trolls in check,

the payment by all goblins sworn.