Airëlindalë: an elven song

Where the land meets the sea

Effervescent new morning

By the land an elodie

Washed away new morning

Through the mist and thaw stream

Frost and birch are gathering

Leafs falls so is her necklace

Into a shard of filigree

Talia walks by the archways

The clouds followed amidst

Her hair is braided like golden leafs

Adorned with garland of another spring

There are strings of grapes in the opening

She approaches one and takes a sniff

Then she remembered last summer

Just like I remembered it

I watched the stars in a stream

In the stream stars are blooming

I saw a reflection mere dying

As if it were also a dream

Uttering a song that spoke to me

If I was also in a mist

Through the cold winter wind

Of the melancholy of been seen

Slowly the land dissolves the sea

Evanescent of ways dying

By the land an elegy

Flushed away new opening

Through the storm and thaw steel

A comforting sea feast

I heard sighs and singings

Always taking and changing shapes

We looked for a place in the Garden

Beyond the edge of woods and lores

Brothers sisters fathers sons

As for the spirits as for souls

Wandering far and wandering none

The wonders of lives the wonders of leafs

They reached for the golden hill

All they got is the pouring rain

Talia played the harp for the piece

She used a plectrum and a pick

I guess that made lyres of all of us

Since she intuitively understands the scores

You see for once there was the curse

Of defiance of old prophecy

Plagued by endless wars and delicate peace

His people became thinking beasts

In houses and courts fight arose

Blood was shed they broke the oath

Linen was washed and stained again

Swords were rust corrupting blood

Soon they torn there many homes

Corpses on carts on cobblestones

No one stands to take a stand

The old ones leaves throne for their old home

After centuries of fighting wars

They ventured beyond the endless sea

Only to return to where they started

On a ship only with the gifted ones

They ventured to the familiar shore

Talia was there to greet him

With thin lips and a nostalgic smile

"I prepared elven wines and mead

Seasoned and stored from a long ago"

To the land long ago he seen

Different from him seeing it

Through darkest sea and black rain

He thought he memorized the terrain

New structures were built that seemed old

New tales were told long after will be

Only heard by the dissolving sea

Scores follows Nevrast by Ainulindale.

Epilogue

Talia was still singing

When sea became land land becomes sea

Her voices projected far away

But all I hear was the lyric

On one cold morning I broke the oath

And put my words into the song

That is when the magic fades out

And I became an aired leaf

By Airen Meredith

Fall 2023