If I were a wood elf... by Robinka

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Fanwork Information

Summary:

A poem in response to the 2009 Back to Middle Earth Month, Day Seventh: "In the woods".

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Genre: Poetry

Challenges: B2MeM 2009

Rating: General

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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 104
Posted on 11 March 2009 Updated on 11 March 2009

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If I were a wood elf...

Thanks to Lissa for her suggestions :)

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Hear the whispers of the wood!
See the smiles of starlit sky!
Those wonders I understood
The moment I opened my eyes.

Under the skies where stars roam
Lies the home of the Grey Folk,
Bound to Arda and her bones,
And paths unnumbered that I walk.

There is beauty to behold
In ageless trees that have breathed
Here since the times of old
And praised the One that made us live.

Mankind passes, swift in pace,
One mere glimpse, and they are gone.
I have all ages to face
Forever, like Earth's rock and stone.

And if our lives cross at times,
By the doings bad or good,
All will be saved in the rhymes
Within the whispers of the wood.

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Oh, I like this a lot and it feels so natural for an elf to feel so attuned to nature instead of singing to the stars. A song of joy a dedication to that which will always accompany them: the trees. What I so like is how you made this full circle: from the joyful opening of the eyes, the 'drinking in' of nature to the more solemn last lines where all that they know will be confined in the memories of the wood (in a way). Masterfully crafted Binks!