Green Book Of Meditations Volume 6 The Books of Songs - Student ...

There’s many a land that is still free:
China, India, Vietnam
But if you’d like to see a pagan paradise
Go join the J.E.T. Program.
There is an island way out East
They call the “Rising Sun”
And it’s seen the start of every long day.
And Gods adore this one.
Bard Arm
March 25, 2000. Copyright 2000
I am Arm Wrath, bard of my people's tree. A member of Ancient
Circle's Grove located in upstate New York. My Archdruid, Inion
An Daghdha has asked me to submit a poem to your contest. My
God, Ogma has given onto me many a word, it is some of these
that I wish to share with you now.
If I - was to stand and sing,
Of all that I saw and heard,
People listen from the crowd,
Come forth - for I will bring.
Words and songs of old,
Stories yet begun,
Take a seat - for I will tell,
Heroes actions all retold.
Long ago - we wandered here,
Strung out - all the way,
Getting lost - some of us,
Separated thru the years.
Life seemed better - way back then,
Once - I remember - long ago,
Merry - we were - in our place,
Till the others came - like a wind.
Alive we must - keep our way,
Turmoil swept our land,
Running - fighting - hiding there,
Gathering - moving - I dare say.
Hold on - we tried to keep it tight,
Time of passage - has it's way,
One by one we stood and fought,
People - ways - lost in sight.
At times - I thought I saw,
Of whom - I knew before,
Wishing - sometimes in the way,
Backwards - before the times of raw.
Many of us - young and old,
Warriors strong - thru and thru,
Taught in ways - I can recall,
Protect thy people - die or do.
Here I am - before you now,
Thinking - of what has come and gone,
Descendants you - of what is left,
Brought forth together - I see not how.
One says this - another that,
Why not old - why not new,
Together - you should come,
Form your tribe to be exact.
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I am Bard of my people's tree,
Nothing is easy in all of life,
Memories past the ancestors speak,
For thou - I bring - our history free.
Solitary Druid
By Mairi Ceolbhor, D.C. Grove
January 2002, for the Public Domain
Original “Sentimental Journey” by Bud Green, Les Brown & Ben
Homer in 1944. Copyright 1944 by Morley
Music co., Inc. 31 West 34 th St., NY., NY 10019. Renewed 1971.
http://members.tripod.com/~RoseMcK/sentimental-journey.mid
The vocal was sensitively done by Doris Day, despite unfounded
fears of the extreme vocal ranges required. Some in the band first
thought that the song was not going to connect with the kids, but
at it's debut in the Hotel Pennsylvania's Cafe Rouge the kids went
crazy!
Gonna be a Solitary Druid
Gonna choose my very own path
Gonna be a Solitary Druid
And renew ways from the past.
Got my harp, got my bottled whiskey
Spend some time in the deep forest
Like a child on a magical journey
I long to learn more before I rest.
Bridge:
Wisdom… that’s the thing I look for, wisdom.
And with knowledge will come freedom
Learnin’ every day a new lesson from
Trees, birds, moon and sun.
Never thought my life could be so fluid
Will I e’er rejoin a grove?
Gotta be a solitary Druid
Solitary Druid for now.
Solitary Druid.
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Bardic Salvo #7: Feb 1 st , 2002
Only a Faery Song
By Mairi Ceolmhor with Sine Ceolbhinn, DC Grove
November 2001, for the Public Domain
Original “Only a Northern Song” by George Harrison
http://www.mainengineering.hispeed.com/ys_sounds.html
If you’re looking for the truth
You may think there is no perfect faith
Then you’re right.
The Gods made it like that.
When you’re vigiling late at night
You may see a group of white dancing lights
And they are.
They just tease us like that.