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Excerpt Excerpt Excerpt from from from "LOBA" "LOBA" "LOBA" by by by Diane Diane Diane Di Di Di Prima Prima
Prima
"Her power is to open what is shut
Shut what is open...
She gleams
in the wildwood where you have not dared
to walk. Wild yew & blackberries
tight, dried meat
of skinny winter deer, these
she holds out, like a key.
Her door
cannot be found, it is close-shut, it crumbles
it wafts in wind. Her power is to raise
the pale green grass of spring, the pale wildflower
carpets which fly starward like primroses w / dogs
asleep on them. Her power is in spittle
& in the lentil,
it rises like smoke
from the reopened furrow. She terraces the hills
w / her glance, her white breast gleams
in mossy caves you remember where the smoke
curled on the greenwood fires...."
Excerpt Excerpt from from the the Ballad Ballad Ballad of of Tinuviel
Tinuviel
From "Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Note: In my opinion, Tinuviel is extremely similar to
the Lady of the Flowers in Celtic tradition.
"The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
and in the glade a light was seen
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinuviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe unseen,
And light of stars was in her hair,
And in her raiment glimmering.
There Beren came from mountains cold,
And lost he wandered under leaves
And where the Elven-river rolled