smallelk
Number of posts : 229
Age : 69
Localisation : Ontario, Canada
Registration date : 2007-05-12
 |  Subject: Ancestry  Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:21 pm | |
| Ancestry
Those who are dead are never gone:
They are there in the thickening shadow.
The dead are not under the earth:
they are in the tree that rustles,
they are in the wood that groans,
they are in the water that sleeps,
they are in the hut, they are in the crowd,
the dead are not dead.
Those who are dead are never gone,
they are in the breast of the woman,
they are in the child who is wailing
and in the firebrand that flames.
The dead are not under the earth:
they are in the fire that is dying,
they are in the grasses that weep,
they are in the whimpering rocks,
they are in the forest,
they are in the house,
the dead are not dead.
-Birago Diop, Senegalese poet | |
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EarlofLeicester
Number of posts : 344
Age : 64
Localisation : Midgard
Registration date : 2007-05-27
| | Subject: Re: Ancestry Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:55 am | |
| Lo, there do I see my father.
Lo, there do I see my mother.
And my sister and my brother
Lo, there do I see the line of my people
Back to the beginning.
Lo, they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them
In the halls of Valhalla
Where the brave may live forever.
- from the film The 13th Warrior, inspired by Ibn Fadlan´s Risala | |
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