Hollow Rings

Hollow Rings

Inspired by The Hollow Crowns Trilogy.  All those loveless marriages before Henry the VII “invented” divorce.  The Kings may have gotten some side “something-something” but the women would have been watched oh so carefully.  Sucks.  Queen Anne may have lost her head but it created a great stride in saving people who are in bad marriages.  As Shakespeare said, “Many a good hangings prevents a bad marriage.”

The Autumn leaves begin to fall now

The time has come for honor’d vow

As on her head you place the crown

Think on what you have cast down

Time will past in measured stride

Will thirst no longer be denied?

A hunger for the missing link

If only you had time to think

But honor must ‘fore pleasure come

Hail the day with wine and rum

Later, regret on stilted wings

Will be borne down on silv’red rings

Naught to do but hold heads high

Live together alone until you die

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Purgatory

She wears him like a badge

An honor to be boasted

A feather in her crown

For a queen she surely is

Never a hair out of place

Or a word that is misspoken

She never does anything

To make a person frown

I can’t find fault with her

And trust me I’ve been looking

I understand her pain

He’s always on my mind

But who can compete

With runway gods and models

I’ll have to look for love

Down here in purgatory

Us sinners in the real world

Must keep among ourselves

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Morrigan/Hecate

Morrigan/Hecate

Daughter of the moon and skies

A trickster born and bred

Mother of angels, Queen of lies

Poisoning her own lovers bed

Foretelling the toll of the dead

But necromancy is where she is strongest

She excels in the hearth and the soul

Who loves the most lasts the longest

But can she survive it whole?

Three tasks can take their toll

He comes begging assistance

When presented with her shadowy debut

He shows a world of resistance

Which will cause him, his decision to rue

If only he had learned some virtue

Now at a crossroad she stands

And becomes a new face, a new being

She crosses into many new lands

Trying to feel like its intentional not fleeing

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