Drabble Poems by Lferion

Into the West

Written for the Silmarillion Writer's Guild January 2021 Resolutions challenge:
Day 16, 21, 26, 31: Bonus Postcards for the November-December Postcards from Middle Earth.
My postcard from the challenge proper.

A drabble-poem incorporating all the postcard texts for the SWG New Year's Resolution bonus prompts, except the first (which got its very own drabble-set) and including the text from the postcard I got for the challenge proper.

With many thanks to the SWG Discord denizens for enthusiasm and encouragement.

On AO3

Not even a whisper, as the light subsides
Moon reflected on the sea - a path
Even our paddles in the water, our coracles
Cannot that way unmake: the sky receives us
Like snowflakes falling up: crystal cold and joyous,
Is this the Straight Road? Way unthought,
The plan enacted for travel from travail?
Briefly the breeze stirs, ruffling the wave-road
And from afar, I see the air, the mountains reaching
Up and up and up, where air and aether mix,
Stars and sparks and fireflies alight on bright swift streams
And this, this is what it is, to be happy.