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Lumen, Allison Marshall Jul 1992

Lumen, Allison Marshall

The Mythic Circle

If I were to enter A child's imagination…


The Art Of High Fantasy, Joe R. Christopher Jul 1992

The Art Of High Fantasy, Joe R. Christopher

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Upon a lonely quest the hero goes Now helped, now hindered, by damsels and by crows


Romantic Iconography: The Valley, The Tower, Joe R. Christopher Jul 1992

Romantic Iconography: The Valley, The Tower, Joe R. Christopher

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Beyond a simple view to state and fix, The Romancer writes in images complex; Not even Dante's four-fold interpretation Can answer everything on every question.


Moon Dreams In Aliador, Thomas M. Egan Jul 1992

Moon Dreams In Aliador, Thomas M. Egan

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Beyond the blue-white Trollgarde mountains where the Dwarf-Kings guard their treasure of gold, lie the storm-tossed seas of Aliador.


Come Morning / Follow / From Here, John Grey Jul 1992

Come Morning / Follow / From Here, John Grey

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Come Morning: Dawn breaks, fog lifts, the forest reclaims its green, sun bums off mist Follow: The car with the bumper sticker that read "There's no place like Narnia" pulled up beside me at the red light From Here: The Great Pyramid rises from the Plains of Giza, taunting my callow brain with the superiority of its geometry, the brazenness of its secrets.


The Green Man Of The Wood / Fairy Land In Aliador, Thomas M. Egan Jul 1992

The Green Man Of The Wood / Fairy Land In Aliador, Thomas M. Egan

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The Green Man of the Wood: Green man, Green man, Why do you flee? I seek to know the answers, Pray come forth to me. Fairy Land in Aliador: The grass is bedded cool and wet on Mid-Summer's eve, the scent is jasmine for me alone on its blanket of green.


Martian Temples / Gardeners, Mary E. Choo Jul 1992

Martian Temples / Gardeners, Mary E. Choo

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Martian Temples: across the sere red plain the monoliths are drawn in purple angry gold Gardeners: high in my city's streaming towers the wind pipes echoes


Venus Rising / Wolfrunner, Mary E. Choo Jul 1992

Venus Rising / Wolfrunner, Mary E. Choo

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Venus Rising: my fascination with fire leads me to consider your potent vision pinned candle-bright to a saffron sky Wolfrunner: dark heart engendered lord you are the keeper of midnight trees


Exile And Mending, David Sparenberg Oct 1991

Exile And Mending, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

Peace to you, Shulammite maiden! Waiting tears at the heart of hope.


The White Queen Soliloquy, Lala Heine-Koehn Oct 1991

The White Queen Soliloquy, Lala Heine-Koehn

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A trumpet wakes her from her sleep. The long wailing notes disturb the heavy folds o f her bed curtains


Eleventh Hour / Autumn Cleaning, Gwenyth E. Hood Oct 1991

Eleventh Hour / Autumn Cleaning, Gwenyth E. Hood

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Eleventh Hour: / climbed down the dark and jagged path leading on, down down, in the shadowed lands. Autumn Cleaning: The autumn wind is sighing in the branches to lift dead leaves and carry to the ground


The Man Of An Uncertain Address, Lala Heine-Koehn Oct 1991

The Man Of An Uncertain Address, Lala Heine-Koehn

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were my neighbours at rate time. We used to chat across the fence, discuss the weather due the next day, sometimes our dual problems.


The Puppets / The Death Of Sun And Moon, Lale Heine-Koehn, Janet P. Reedman Oct 1991

The Puppets / The Death Of Sun And Moon, Lale Heine-Koehn, Janet P. Reedman

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The Puppets: The woman behind me is cutting a tree to crush me and if it must, his hand, holding mine. The Death of Sun and Moon: The Moon stood in the shroud of night, a crone who waned and sank billowing pale deathlight


Confessions Of A Dragon Lady / Windbound, K. V. Skene Oct 1991

Confessions Of A Dragon Lady / Windbound, K. V. Skene

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Confessions of A Dragon Lady: Before I knew the wisdom of this world I felt the ebb and flow of secret tides. Windbound: Back of the North Wind, Under a pallid sun, all life Is permafrosted.


Il-Lyran's Song For Midsummer, Sarah Beach Oct 1991

Il-Lyran's Song For Midsummer, Sarah Beach

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Light lay soft in dreaming gloom. Darkness then did roam and drift.


To Christopher Columbus, Gwenyth E. Hood Oct 1991

To Christopher Columbus, Gwenyth E. Hood

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I wonder at the fervor of your passion, Your dreams o f glory, gold and splendid wealth


Brides Of Sealmen / Rites Of Union, Janet P. Reedman, David Sparenberg Oct 1991

Brides Of Sealmen / Rites Of Union, Janet P. Reedman, David Sparenberg

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Brides of Sealmen: Loneliness breeds strange fancies in girls grown too old for love Rites of Union: Am I b ut one rhythm? Are my rhythms not multiple as air's motions?


On The Walls / Hero To His Captive Elfbride / Asphodel, Janet P. Reedman Oct 1991

On The Walls / Hero To His Captive Elfbride / Asphodel, Janet P. Reedman

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On the Walls: Under the shade of shattered walls, Remembered lives blow like dreams Hero to His Captive Elfbride: Dawn's light glitters on faded mountain tarn Asphodel: Caught in the shadows the keep cast


Childhood's End, K. V. Skene Oct 1991

Childhood's End, K. V. Skene

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Each yesterday Ended when, quite magically, The streetlights blinked, and once again Bewitched the night.


Merlin's Winter / Eurydice In The Real World / Walking On Water, Clelie Rich Mar 1991

Merlin's Winter / Eurydice In The Real World / Walking On Water, Clelie Rich

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Merlin's Winter: Your season is over now. The Lady of the Lake has closed her villas for the winter Eurydice In The Real World: Orpheus crept unseen into his afterlife through the early dark Walking On Water: Sunset bleeds across the sky, stains my fingers saffron and peaches.


Now And Then / Wind, Maybe / Once Upon, Walter Kuchinsky Mar 1991

Now And Then / Wind, Maybe / Once Upon, Walter Kuchinsky

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Now and Then: Birds, there in the air and fish, there in the sea then, as now, as then are really one for me Wind, Maybe: Didn’t hear anything, last night Once Upon: ONCE UPON a late night, easy chair, living room, Pheasant Glen


Only Half A Moon Outside, Zan Agzigian Mar 1991

Only Half A Moon Outside, Zan Agzigian

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he mumbled low, hidden in past footsteps, beaming through the tom branches needling his head


The Prodigal Son's Older Brother Wonders About The Right And Left Path, Dirk J. Verhulst Mar 1991

The Prodigal Son's Older Brother Wonders About The Right And Left Path, Dirk J. Verhulst

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I recognized first the old limp as you walked over the horizon on the road which disappears directly to the left of the sun


Seamist For Two Voices, Clelie Rich Mar 1991

Seamist For Two Voices, Clelie Rich

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Who waits by the seashore, there on the rocks, grey and cold and forlorn?


The Silencebringers, David Sparenberg Mar 1991

The Silencebringers, David Sparenberg

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The man who loves the earth whose love is genuine


Red Hawk Song / Mount Lowe 1978 / Higher, David Sparenberg, Paul Newman Mar 1991

Red Hawk Song / Mount Lowe 1978 / Higher, David Sparenberg, Paul Newman

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Red Hawk Song: I admit that I love you. My heart sings strongly through the fires of my body. Mount Lowe 1978: Ruins rambled, too well sifted Higher: Watching the crows' realm, treetop mopers amidst cloud erasers of the blue.


Signs Of The Times, Gwenyth E. Hood Mar 1991

Signs Of The Times, Gwenyth E. Hood

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The Cherry spread her blossoms in the fall White and dainty among the golden leaves, Before the deep-red-ivy coated wall


Medicine Cord, David Sparenberg Mar 1991

Medicine Cord, David Sparenberg

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I grasp in my hands today the tail feather of a hawk


One Sunday My Son / Cassandra, Dirk J. Verhulst Mar 1991

One Sunday My Son / Cassandra, Dirk J. Verhulst

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One Sunday My Son: One Sunday my son ran into the orchard behind the house. Cassandra: You have heard the children cry from the water below the rock: the earth red with blood from the feast of the father.


Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward / Reluctant Spring, Dirk J. Verhulst Mar 1991

Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward / Reluctant Spring, Dirk J. Verhulst

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Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward: In the waiting room my wife rests her pain on my shoulder; the broken bones are hidden below the surface of her skin. Reluctant Spring: This spring the birds fly low above the trees; their new green skin not yet able to hide the bones of branches.