Myths and Legends...

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Sometimes, they're true

Fever

In dark December

I gave away my precious

A Sweet surrender

Count your sorrows

The book of sorrows’

Pages cannot be counted

Only persevered 

Platform Moon part 1

Lying on a platform

My history forgotten

In the ocean’s depths

Platform Moon part 2

I hear her whisper

In the sounds of the calm waves

A message for me

Platform Moon part 3

She is of the sea

The lonely sounds of the night

Will never meet her

Platform Moon part 4

Is she my saviour?

Or a light on a platform?

A dying man’s dream

Platform Moon part 5

How faint is her smile?

An enigma fully wrapped

In a dark riddle

Platform Moon part 6

Her dark mystery

Sits at the ocean’s bottom

Concealed by the moon

Platform Moon part 7

The sand in her hair

Glistens in the still ocean

And reveals the truth

Platform Moon part 8 (7 5 7)

I am of the highway and

We were meant to be

For she grew up in the sea

Fate

Wherever I go,

I go alone. With no one

A fate all my own

Cold Revenge

In life and in dreams

Never feel any anger

Only taste revenge

This is a series I wrote called the Legend of the Viking Prince for The Ties That Bind. It is reproduced here in semi Haiku form. 

Legend of the Viking Prince part 1

In Scandinavia

Millennia ago, lived

The Viking Prince John

Legend of the Viking Prince part 2

His great adventures

Spawned epic legends and tales

Across the wide world

Legend of the Viking Prince part 3 (7 5 5 7 5 7 5 7)

On a frozen battlefield,

John, sole survivor

Of a bloody war

Its purpose lost for all time

Met a Valkyrie

Messenger to the Norse gods

Sent as an escort

For the souls of dead heroes

Legend of the Viking Prince part 4

Quite impossibly

In due time, they fell in love

A forbidden love

Legend of the Viking Prince part 5

Odin, King of the Norse gods

Learned of their affair

And banned John from Valhalla

Legend of the Viking Prince part 6

John pleaded for grace

Begging to be with his love

Till Odin replied

Legend of the Viking Prince part 7

If John died a hero’s death

He and his true love

Would reunite for all time

Legend of the Viking Prince part 8

Odin was crafty

And before exiling John,

Gave him a cruel gift

Invulnerability

From all man’s weapons

Legend of the Viking Prince part 9

John soon realized

No earth weapon could slay him

He would never die

Legend of the Viking Prince part 10

He travelled boldly

Across a dark, troubled world

In search of his death

Legend of the Viking Prince part 11

In his fruitless search

He grew ever more distant

From humanity

Legend of the Viking Prince part 12

Eventually

Weary of the endless fight

For justice, and despairing

In his loneliness

He travelled far north

Beyond the reach of the world

And vanished from man’s knowledge

 I will always love Platform Moon. It was born of loneliness and heartache. I'll never be in such a place again, so I will never write anything like that again.

Yours to enjoy,

Lloyd Webber