Strong Meter and Strong Rhyme: Excerpt from The Raven by E.A. Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at [...]
Prose: Selection from Skaldskaparmal in the Prose Edda But Skadi, daughter of giant Thiassi, took helmet and mail-coat and all weapons of war and went to Asgard to avenge her father. But the Aesir offered her atonement and compensation, the first item of which was that she was to choose [...]
Complex Thought with Complex Meter: Selection from Hamlet by W. Shakespeare O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working [...]
The Children of Earth call out to the Gods and Goddesses of all our peoples! We call to You in the Heavens, shining in the skies! We call to You in the Midworld, striding across the land! We call to You in the Underworld, guiding and guarding our Dead. Shining Ones, come to us, we [...]
The Children of Earth call out to all those Spirits who share this world with us. We call to the Spirits of Motion – You who crawl, who run, who swim, who fly. We call to the Spirits of Place – You trees, You rock, You plants. We call to the Spirits under the Mound [...]
The Children of Earth call out to our human kin who came before. We call to our Ancestors of blood – Without you, we would not be here. You are our parents and grandparents, from all generations. We call to our Ancestors of heart – you whom we have loved and lost, and whom [...]
This was also for the Clergy Training Program in 2009. This is the Statement of Purpose for an Alban Gaef (Winter Solstice) Rite, written and performed as part of my "Theatre For Ritual 1" class which is for the ADF Clergy Training Program Children of the Earth, we are here to celebrate the Feast of [...]