Original Facebook Date: January 10, 2008
Location: Study - Incense is gone - Studying
Feeling: Inspired
Listening to: Foo Fighters - Overdrive
Well surprise people, an early entry.
The thing is that I came across the most amazing piece of poetry in a long time. Surprisingly, it’s not Shakespeare, Poe or Dickinson, but J.R.R Tolkien who wrote thsi maganificent work. The minute I heard it (From Treebeard in the movie, extended edition) I knew I had to post it here. I’m beggining to wonder why he never won a Nobel…
When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough;
When light is on the wild-wood stream, and wind is on the brow;
When stride is long, and breath is deep, and keen the mountain-air,
Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is fair!
When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold,
Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold;
When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West,
Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!
Fragment from the Two Towers - J.R.R Tolkien
Sharkman, signing off.
PS: To write with invisible inspiration, Tolkien’s greatest gift.
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