Poems and Lyrics
I can’t remember when I first started writing poems and lyrics. It may have been back in my younger days, but I don’t remember any of it, and haven’t come across it recently. I know I wrote a few verses while I was a member of The Write Idea writers’ group. One such, Telephony, has a line or two that shows its age – younger readers won’t have a clue what I mean by ‘Radio Rented’, for instance. It’s a tongue-in-cheek look at the world of communications technology – or it was, about two decades ago!
I have a few more like that, but I won’t link to them here – I’d rather give you ‘something completely different’. Here’s a poem I wrote that inspired me to start writing my fantasy novel, Darga’s Thorpe – I called it Dragon Days.
I have sometimes thought that perhaps some of my poems could become lyrics, if I could team up with someone who’s good at writing music. If anyone happens by here and would like to give it a try, I’d love to hear from them! Here’s one of my offerings that I thought just might be worth a go – North Wind.
Here is one of my pagan offerings, drawing on a series of powerful experiences I had while visiting the amazing sacred landscape of Avebury. This one is written specifically as song lyrics, which I’m hoping someone will one day set to music.
In 2018, I qualified as a Bard with the British Druid Order, a proud moment after all my studies. As part of the final coursework, I had to complete a ‘cell of song’ – a 6-hour seclusion with my muse, from which I was expected to produce an inspired piece of bardic work. Here is one of my favourite poems, the Song of the Moon-Gazing Hare, written during that 6-hour stint.
As my pagan friends know me by a different name, my bardic pieces are published under my pagan pen name of Rhianna Nodens. The artwork on the page is also mine, and is what inspired the poem.
Speaking of inspiration, the image to the right on this page is entitled ‘The Skirts of the Muse’, and is a piece of drawing and colouring enhanced with stickers, illustrating the rainbow nature of bardic inspiration, known as the Awen. There is a poem to accompany this, too, also written under my pagan name, Rhianna Nodens.