Sonnets

Tuatha de Danann

They landed on a mountain in the west.
By clouds they hid, until they reached the ground
Of the green isle, stopping their year-long quest.
A perfect place to live in peace, now found.

They brought their magic knowledge from the North.
They could eclipse the sun for three whole day
And tall above the people stood they orth,
Before their Regal Empire gave away.

They had four magic objects kept be priests;
The Stone of Destiny, the Champion’s spear,
A sword of power and Cauldron of feasts.;
To these four things their powers did adhere.

They lost the battle against man. They fell
From heights into the hidden cairns they dwell.


*Orth: vertical


Milisians

The Age of Gods was soon to end. The wind
Of change to hail the Age of Men, to tend
The soil of Eire. Three tall boys, Kings, akined
By blood; the Sons of Mil, bound to ascend.

The Poet, White Knee, lead the boys to her
The Triple Goddess of the Land, for each
To take a bride. The Gods, they did astir
With rage and cursed the waves who brought them beach

Upon the shores of Eire. On march the boys
To consummate their marriage to the land
And tear apart the Gods. They do destroy
A time on earth alike to faerie land.


The Gods have fled under the ground, in cairn
They hide. Now only stories told to bairn.


*cairn: piles of stone placed with a significance, usually ti mark something.
*bairn: an scottish word for children