Dark Glories

by

Billy McBride



"Dark Glories" is a gathering of 81 poems created by Billy McBride and his credited Muses.

Copyright by William McBride
October 2014

1.
In that hour, friendship
When growing praises
To honor it longer did.
Fall character,
Terrible dreamer;
Find fit yourself between us,
But before was wild.
Father takes
From their gifts, the men themselves,
Them for his rhyming song.
Our spite for right,
When laws died
Like on facing hills
Fair persons too.
- Shay with Billy McBride


2.
From grass, to sun,
Ground on and off with farewell,
O certain worth
Sail thither with thoughts
Precious but strange.
Tint return
From behind, for good,
For the paper that life
Made of anything.
Find language
Once more fool;
Sing a man,
Pray for the whole
Bitter empire.
- Arielle with Billy McBride


3.
Had bleakest yellow
Fought the shade,
Would have utterly drowned
Even truth from a people.
Dusky grass now
Picture our time;
Merely speak,
Thus open it all.
Bark sailed,
Dipped, itself passed,
Came the end
Of liquid land,
The place, we trancing
Went out and that struck.
- Diana with Billy McBride


4.
For a boy, cake
Fared after his fish,
Whence that hourly progress, sleep,
Would first freeze any leader,
Was eternally that complex.
Painted shells
Were many outside under
And thus in
A melt of water
Black as bat.
Dreamer and countryside above,
Returned the child
To what now stood and with him
At his fantasy meek.
- Thrikbot with Billy McBride


5.
Flowering light would have filled
Hearts one by one,
And woods that
Tree together with
The now March weather
Its return, had green been touched.
Upon earth with rain, the strain
Through the vaulting air swished,
Gather birds for birds
Cried what lost the boy.
A grey web, all the weather,
Passed a pink flower bare,
Lowest of the windy wide,
Shipped the solar about the sky.
- Bertha with Billy McBride


6.
A simple seashore poured,
Was in a happy realm, its own,
Too, the paradisal sun,
The sand, it and the sea struck:
Much meant them to a man,
Regarded his words as they were, found,
Next milked that time in the end
To periods with talk again.
The good the golden had
And red so centered over
That country, to some;
To a heaven he had come,
Was ready to be rid
From the dangerous that part.
- Marion with Billy McBride


7.
Like ladies, the sea had been fair
This winter, not as thick
Nor as obscured as visions
Of the fenced light grey
Flood over this world.
So turquoised the afternoon,
And day kept on,
It thus was wind that upon wind
Musically echoed,
Was gentleness even from
Some rougher wind,
While the blueness evermore stood,
While wisdom its own wandered
The water plain all,
All for its own very right song.
- Ora Ora Tiferetot and Billy McBride


8.
Kindness was in the air,
Those freezing calm winds
Came the peace to the shore,
While an eternity of red fruit,
Besides perfection, into the port.
Upstairs had darkened each with our star,
Each our night-lit home above,
Where felt thither we the awe
From kindness within from beauty.
Much this to ado
Was sky farther and farther
Than the grief of any my question,
And hugged my breast,
Grinning, that aged sky.
- Donna with Billy McBride


9.
This eye did seek
What all that the company took,
And the Earth soft enough to visit, where too?
Green the wild land both
With streets all gone up with my heaven.
Soil of roads
Became as transparent the breeze;
Ships turning their whitest
Gone to the end alone with mine.
Song, my right song,
Bare mine, my paradise;
White plane farther to go,
Now since my muse from somewhere
Did beyond the yonder land emerge.
- Libby with Billy McBride


10.
Up droopy babe arise
And search that simple
Frame of a sparkling noon
For not so foul a fool
But strength for you.
Be putty for what that safety should be.
Richer be the world
With a hundred on going
Years in your own hands
Like the ships chained
That have shown themselves
Against your space.
Had only that trail if recorded been lived
But by gentlemen already
To dispatch it all,
Of that sickness was in their own souls.
- Elaine with Billy McBride


11.
Teach me to wander
Yet go not so far from myself
When I to the old must ever come.
My fortune from many a line before,
Pleasures of love and more,
Slip them all, be all remembered
What heaven herself doth love.
With morn, the sunrays lit,
There was beauty fair and was idle,
And seemed rung together with life;
Rivaled the dream, the hope,
Strong that, enough for song:
It, string my time
The world blue
Liveth and be new.
- Elaine with Billy McBride


12.
Ways have been worked
Unto the deep, with the good sand near,
Had again built it up from nature
Another promontory for such solitude.
Sat I atop a mountain,
Seemed to widen old time.
In exhibition endless
That the heart rode
With pain for my buddy,
Alas, I remembered not what motion was.
Join then the cold
If pays to know
What could I bare with my soul
Must break so frail.
- Libby with Billy McBride


13.
It was for some beautiful domain the sunshine
Seemed to perpetuate accident for me
With so much depth rendering down
For those pink roses for my best.
The air did fly through the leaves
Which with my favorite had cast anew
As she too gleamed in pure day.
To me came more rugged pleasure,
More of the music than sense
Which put us jolly in time,
But went off ever faintly.
Before we illuminated the sphere with thought,
This was the power which nature dealt;
It went out there first, then we.
- Kabbalah with Billy McBride


14.
It had office to these days
In whiter waves yonder all the shade
Where plant seemed all too familiar
And bee sped to his honeycomb
Or bee to flower to feed.
Twas then commotion in the leaf
That bird from thither rushed
Who loiters in all nature,
Next stopped upon the mountain grass
That reached sand and shore here
Where none could cripple an understanding,
Nor flood with sincerity,
But only mortal golden morn
To come eagerly again and early.
- Amy with Billy McBride


15.
He would project his tune
Then creep toward sleep;
Before, in the kingdom he worked in gold,
Now father returned from the stars,
He was neither old nor grey,
His patient time over.
O, how the night-fall
Charmed my imagination,
Its hurrisome dirge,
Then the pacing thrive of night
Softly outside,
Till came the boosted sun
Which climbed some
From a brighter genius he ahead
Riding through the weather and its heavens.
- Grouchy with Billy McBride


16.
Amid silvery leaf coverlets,
Under leafy field some alleyway unseen,
Even where blossomed the blue-bell,
Yet, much to another silvery kingdom
Were we brought lightly
Through silvery tide.
And as loud wind
All the day and evening
Had heaped us over the world,
With it did we soar
Over shallow desert,
Towards more pleasant woods,
Nearer them for our pear tree,
For fresh herbs
Were found amongst the hill.
- Honey with Billy McBride


17.
At sea was found a shore again.
The rising air
And dawn were held out
Boldly over its top.
Swung grass along street,
Holly at the beach
Began again with sprouts.
Came a loveliness without sadness everywhere.
Not a bleak year for anything lovely;
But another strange beautiful year
Seemed evermore to ride on without end.
And another dash more for thee!
To no end alone
As it all did blink in the face of thou!
- Arielle with Billy McBride


18.
The biggest cities would a kingdom claim,
Had flooded, and family and friend became fish.
This fish or that
Went wiggling way down in the waters.
Saw them the slug who sat on something
Above its rim.
Twas nothing more dear
As never to talk again, that very thrill
Of sound no more nor war
Was felt of the fish,
Swam under that latest of nature,
The red, the orange of fall;
Everywhere alone went dear,
So were they themselves,
No other fish they could hurt.
- Bertha with Billy McBride


19.
Mine all a poor soul,
But frail, broken or sick not at all,
Desired life of the day, yea,
Fanciful laughter, that too,
With music with its echo
While more the day poured on.
Returned another father
For a pure day in gleam.
Thus projected the tune
Often golden with knowledge,
With knowledge he joined.
And with severe memory
Beneath the whiter suns of heaven,
He had the fierce day outlived.
- Teresa with Billy McBride


20.
Shined beautiful their domain
In regard by words men found,
For roses in baskets
The gentlemen dispatched.
As the whole truth emerged
For all dangers ready to be rid,
They their newness cast
Upon each their favorite.
Breath for their lives,
Freshest of friends then some
Buddies to talk to,
And laughed them all
Round standing again;
Too nature with them did strive
To crowd the plain
With the rightness
Of her very own song.
- Grouchy with Billy McBride


21.
Seemed in music I sensed
The sounds of boundless thunder.
Should I not wander too with anonymity
Featured among the outdoors,
There to connect with and live?
Another strong day held late
As the shore was licked next the river.
Went by one old puffy leaf after another
In the soupy flood.
Travelers, adieu,
Impatient for home!
Whereto the sand I rolled myself out,
Saw friends and they were themselves best,
We crows for ourselves on the river.
- Billy McBride


22.
Though the dark came to light
I complained was too low
That candle of trouble my heart.
So I searched the stars
Them clear as white
Seemed kind to be there.
Our road our day
How too crept I that voyage
Till gleamed purer the day
And I no forth more to wander it.
Light filling land again
Stretched more light
Over fair sea
High pale over with grey.
- Elaine with Billy McBride


23.
Winds of white eternity
But pierced the uncertain,
Whose pains when they learned to be idle
Came not for good as their lives desired,
And shook from them their gifts of delight.
Came again those suns of paradise
All the day linked to the day
A sense that life was vanity,
And that nick of time but all I had.
Beyond the pleasant woods
Went a beauty just as kind;
My reason for rest
Stopped in sleep
In frost North shine.
- Ora Ora Tiferetot and Billy McBride


24.
None less had sung than existence
Herself as wide as weather clear,
For health did return.
As promised the morning liveth,
Highest palest grey
Laid her loved light down
Nursed in the soul a crown.
The truth be sung,
Filled land by light
Through mist did flash,
At dawn with light did freshen.
No vision obscured
But clear as white
Through icy vacant wind it came.
- Valerie with Billy McBride


25.
Two went over some countryside
And talked again as children there;
The snow returned to the pines,
And the wonderful rest, it came
To those souls as eternal our time.
Gave sleep its awe,
Wandered both with tales of home.
O, how the racy day gleamed,
Storm nor nightmare, neither were here.
They dreamed they were rivals of old
And stuck, pretending a path,
Did creep toward something:
To know was as good as gold
Since both for their kingdom did work.
- Honey with Billy McBride


26.
The good dawn passed,
Completed as old past was,
Thus dark more dark became.
The moon sat above,
Finally came night,
A voyage its other gap.
Beautiful fallen evening
With happiness tonight,
The monumental moment.
Our favorite world filled
With green yards,
Gulfed a bold kingdom
Of hurrying children
All outdoors singing.
- Ora Ora Tiferetot with Billy McBride


27.
Vast as the stuff of day
Above some countryside,
No more so a grand voice
But weary weighted,
The good weather rested
Its lone and vivid flow.
Kind shadows from midnight came
Flooded all that wonder.
All the stars were out
Suspended in their loneliness;
That monumental sky fell,
Saw it all the weary old walker,
Beautiful black all around
Had landed everywhere.
- Elaine with Billy McBride


28.
The air had no duty to speak,
It went over the warm sea,
Yet, called strong all song;
Sands blew out the sea,
Not a break for dancing flowers,
Nor break for all the day.
The light of the morn was made;
It turned all to peace.
The upper icy wind
Did collect some water,
Drops were absorbed in color,
And the eye saw enough to love,
Many pleasures in furnished ways
Triumphed in high waves.
- Grouchy with Billy McBride


29.
New grass in the garden
Did dance with flowers forward and back.
The years of a sad sky went on,
Their shadows were lost
To a world all myth.
Moon shined in peace,
The sun over water.
Time crept always on.
From sleep the island was roused;
Candlelight or sunshine
Were seen at their heights
Where stars in a line
Blessed earthly delights,
Scaling downward tomorrow.
- Diana with Billy McBride


30.
The clear pitch
Of pleasures felt
Shielded the soul
In richest worlds.
The road was long
And slid the noise,
Day came official.
To pillow and chair
Fell morning rain;
Tide had filled,
The world above did dry.
A little space was meant
Those poor lost lovers
Who neighbored alone the beach.
- Donna with Billy McBride


31.
No endearing myths
To our fathers returned,
But hellish complexity
Played a tune;
They wrestled from snow
Their unwilling souls.
From the season more water
Painted the weather.
The old roar
Of the ocean stirred,
Though wonderful the great blue
Did dance by itself eternally,
A fine snowfall still
Was feared a little by those men.
- Diana with Billy McBride


32.
Today the road was war.
Farther off skies
Paced into night.
Till sleepy questions
Were built up as high
As the gold morning
Where light stayed fresh,
Filling the land with more light
Into skies without end.
Came war the weather,
Backward tropical fun,
Reunited it all,
Flooded the world,
The traffic and light.
- Thrikbot with Billy McBride


33.
The greatest flame made it again
Atop another day
Over roads and mountains,
Its fire to be never put out.
Like it the soul, pure as sand,
Or as words of children,
All eternity, herself will know.
Fountains of life
Shined over shadow,
Declined to construct
More stones outside.
Soul dried her tears,
Climbed moon at dusk,
And floated little stars.
- Thrikbot with Billy McBride


34.
Truth tripped
When called the world,
For with the blind to fool
Perpetual appreciation
Never completed.
Bubbled life
In a water bowl
Chilled by heaven.
The reminder alive
To watch the fire
In family, friends
And not lose power
Neither from nature, nor from mind,
Nor from your fairest labor.
- Kabbalah with Billy McBride


35.
I slept the hours away
To be tomorrow as strong.
With wonder that flooded
Then up over the wide hilltops
Sunbeams speared.
Given more time to be tossed,
That eternal stretch,
My self-power
Searched life far.
Dull thoughts
Came not while dashed the sun.
The air was kind;
Love unfolded itself
And echoed the harp.
- Honey with Billy McBride


36.
Loud winds
Strung through the time.
Everywhere the wind
Caught up with the day.
No ripe peace
Made the day.
Slow man
Traveled low.
Silver places
Of sky during day
Froze in time.
Far off a white plane
In anonymity wandered,
Seemed not to hurry.
- Teresa with Billy McBride


37.
Beside the earth
And colder than it,
The sea danced.
New yellow roses
Hung all around
In strong late day
As all young earth.
Cold winds did come
Over grass or street
Or dirt with ice.
The flood that was night
Blackened the time
When a few mountains
And the delightful sea
Were shadowed by a heaven.
- Amy with Billy McBride


38.
So dimmed the night;
Star was created again,
Time again was watched.
Eternal life it too:
Period of childhood again,
Thousand more friends,
Pleasure and glory;
While in the kingdom
Much changed.
Great happy memories
Ahead were framed for all.
No friendship was ruined.
Blossom filled tree.
Future contentment
For each and all,
It came the unfallen now.
- Arielle with Billy McBride


39.
In black shade,
Because of the games,
Princess did sigh,
Streaming tears moved slow,
Sought out to find a palace;
Called out long for time.
The ground broke,
Proud tide found it.
Haste the glory, the labor,
Still were free
Those crowns of heaven.
Grecian sea
Rushed the gates.
Twas worked to death
In pleasant places
By rolling land.
- Donna with Kelly with Billy McBride


40.
Long the gift of day
In great kindle bent;
Agreeable were the heavens.
The day had ended its date.
A day a glory
The future did fight
Came thick and wide,
Shade on the ground composed.
New nations,
Stretched in dust,
Surveyed the future.
Sea wash
Composed some fury
In azure joy.
- Ora Ora Tiferetot with Billy McBride


41.
Furious falling waters
Battled the foe,
Its strength dared,
And fell to the ground.
Then day stood
Warm as flame,
Its giant bulk,
Demanded we too fight it
With hands with eyes.
First prayers from fear
Filled the air
Like sky thunder,
Then praised we our day
We claimed and shared.
- Arielle with Billy McBride


42.
Great sorrows
Ruled over the places
Where war rose.
Friends dared
To conquer heaven
On the glorious coast.
Earth overwhelmed
The blood of heroes.
The wind thickened,
Then storm hissed,
And the bravest flew away.
There was no hope for honor
When the dames went exiled
Into the great light.
- Diana with Billy McBride


43.
An eternal wait
Passed and expired.
A fearless day
Was pursued by thunder,
Whose deep soul
Oppressed by some fate,
Came thick and close.
Bright purple
Appeared high
With hundreds of heroes
Mighty but distressed.
Those glories of our people
Drove by fiercely
Rushing to be free.
- Grouchy with Billy McBride


44.
Now still safe
From attacks of rage,
I checked the way
To the strong city
As the weight of the year
Struck her white.
But feeble rays
In the dying air
During thick night went out,
Their labor vain.
The stretched plain
Less and less
Was treasured as its golden
Scene did close.
- Grouchy with Billy McBride


45.
The traveler did brake
At the entrance of the wall.
Night followed
With the voices of the suffering.
The war was rash,
Many fell and perished.
The town was saved
And peace was shared.
Wind followed
The flight of the dove.
Over the high plains
Spread with trees
Cleared by the winter cold,
The day was washed.
- Kabbalah with Billy McBride


46.
A green summer
Leaned under the sky.
Pain was in the heart,
And the will had filled.
A friend hoped
In vain to pursue
The glory that would
Have lifted him.
Fate sunk lower,
Strong nerves
Tried for glory
And in a suspended moment
Collected power,
Yet he did shake in dread
When their might expired.
- Thrikbot with Billy McBride


47.
The sparkling sun
In keen radiance
Beamed silver.
Its power pierced,
Laid low the glory.
Its power raged,
Flashing flames,
The fate of the day.
Till darker spirits
With superior beauty
Scattered against the light,
And surrounded the hero,
Whose own great soul
Ceased flaming.
- Bertha with Billy McBride


48.
Clouds rose
Lost in the air
Above a sandy ground.
Far off and away
The skies blazed.
A strong force
Began at length
To engage my grief.
At the cursed tomb,
A sad grave,
A peaceful spirit
Loomed pensively.
Death now
Bestowed some tenderness.
- Shnoonah with Billy McBride


49.
A strange field
Was guarded now
By a shady day.
The wretched day
Devoured its prey
In its sad line.
The horrible gloom
Itself expired in silence.
On hairy grass
Feasted day.
Over broken rocks
It softly slept
While dear life
Cried feebly.
- Arielle with Billy McBride


50.
Lost in night
Over hills and rocks,
And slow to return
To their great spots
Were the smoky clouds.
Like water they rolled
Beside to where the flowers stood,
Their fresh flow
Long and wide
Spread to all sides.
Spirits in the air
Powered the sky.
Its far limits
Would sink quietly.
- Yafah with Billy McBride


51.
Passaged over the sea,
Carefully chosen heroes,
Following the shade
To the common sand
To raise a memorial
For beautiful women.
Over the ocean raced
Horse and car
From far, with hope,
Highly skilled,
And with cheerful hearts
To win the glory
To know in the end
Their last prize.
- Elaine with Billy McBride


52.
Thick clouds
Flying lost
Floated on the wind.
Flying in the air
Over the stretched plain;
They burned with pain
Because shadows hovering below
Too, came to the field.
More Lords of the day
Came nicer now
Above the worn out roads.
These smoky heroes
Kept close by
Then flew far away.
- Kabbalah with Billy McBride


53.
The high monarch
Paid a fortune
For more youth and fame.
Friends flattered him
With gifts and smiles.
His friends glowed,
And in glory he was rewarded
By the wise youth
Whose hearts he had lifted.
Green spring
Swelled again with grain,
And the commander was pleased,
Victorious in the game
That made him a god of the skies.
- Grouchy with Billy McBride


54.
A great prize
Came from a great knowledge.
The king was proclaimed
Whoever had the best knowledge.
A banquet stretched,
Friends came with presents.
The day shifted
When morning waved by
After sweeping across the field
With strong pride.
Divine friends,
Pleased by the feast
Flew to the sky
But were forbidden into heaven.
- Ora Ora Tiferetot with Billy McBride


55.
Sitting in the shade,
Hands on the ground,
The virgin was charmed.
Land grew
All green,
A beautiful bed.
Swift flew
The dove through the skies.
Roses fair
Grasped the earth
Swelling with joy.
Then earth rushed
Gloomy clouds
And the day became dark.
- Arielle with Billy McBride


56.
Quivering day
Defied heaven,
Its golden flood
Raged and glowed.
The shine moved
From field to wood,
An impelling force
Of day power.
Thus the heroes did descend
To conquer the world,
Driving to the shore
In gleaming light
Their bright steeds
Whose eyes were furious.
- Kabbalah with Billy McBride


57.
Lost for days,
The city men
Were snatched up to heaven.
The strong men
In a crowd stood
High in the air.
In those enormous days,
A king fought
With a great spear
The princes of the sky.
The returning light
Rushed upon the scene
And his celestial foes
Finally scattered from his spear.
- Arielle with Billy McBride


58.
Beautiful waves
Swayed impatiently.
A friendly man
Had plenty of gold
To give his son
To go on a journey.
He wandered over the graves,
Kissed the ground
For a hundred days
Until his father went to the shore
Where that unhappy son was.
The designs of the night
Broadly displayed
Now monstrous waves.
- Shay with Billy McBride


59.
The roll of the land
Broke through the ground,
Freeing itself towards the heavens.
The ground fell away
And floated wide
Over the spinning earth.
A mighty stream
Flooded the deep
And all went dark.
Then the shores rose
From the heaps of the coasts,
And a sound burst out,
When the flood spread,
Which was a loud rush.
- Amy with Billy McBride


60.
The land was wild
Which was destroyed by man.
The winds followed
The streams where flowers had been,
Rapidly speeding
By the powerful mountains.
Washed in slime
Miserable friends
Had no shame.
It rained some
As they crossed the sea
Over its blue flood
To appear before their sons
Upon the roaring shore.
- Arielle with Billy McBride


61.
The sea was full.
Its waters challenged
The chiefest ships.
The waves were dark,
In them rested warriors.
But the center of it was fair,
The challengers approached it.
Spirits went by
Who also came for glory;
The town was invincible,
And yielded to the ships
Which might have been safe,
But were now doomed
In truce with the dead.
- Diana with Billy McBride


62.
Provided with life,
Man was strong,
And shared his prizes.
All treasured peace,
Life and land.
People before filled
Their homes with wealth,
And life was a glory
Until they failed to sacrifice
Instruction to their youth.
Angry words
Had a fierce force
Upon the smallest youths
Who prayed for power.
- Diana with Billy McBride


63.
Safely home,
The mother turned
Into her heavy child
After drinking from a cup
Of banquet wine.
Other city children
Stood bewildered
When they saw the joy
Stirred in the youth
Who was now a young man.
Then a dark hurricane
Mightily passed,
A giant wild
Dashing wind.
- Kabbalah with Billy McBride


64.
The ground was ancient.
A strong rain
Came to sea and earth,
Pressing into the dust.
It reached through
The fields of the town
Dropping down the earth,
Through the earth,
To the dead heroes
Resting in their tombs.
People were raised,
And spoke to God again,
But the wrathful clouds
Came once again
And mingled with their words.
- Honey with Billy McBride


65.
Hostile faces
Met and fought.
Men on horses
Fought with pride
But the victory
Went to the monarch,
Who in strength moved
Over land and field
While the forgotten ones fled.
On the massive rocks,
He struck his sword,
And it broke through.
By his side stood
His determined queen
Who with him reigned
Again over all the ages.
- Elaine with Billy McBride


66.
At the end of the city
Was a sorrowful land
Where a father and his comrades
Moved patiently.
The sun sparkled,
And the valiant companions
Beheld the gold,
That flew to the earth.
Some white clouds
Advanced and left,
And some others sat high up
Crowning heaven,
While back at the town
A council became hostile.
- Elaine with Billy McBride


67.
In a dark garden
The stones were big,
And were crowded by the walls.
Dry of water
All stood broken
Because a son had forgotten much,
And its earth all but destroyed.
A solid light
Then was cast down from the heavens,
While the son was resting,
And reached the dust.
It stretched swiftly around,
And gave pity to all
From the sorrowful shade.
- Ora Ora Tiferetot with Billy McBride


68.
Buried in the ground
Of a grassy pasture
We're riches and gifts
Of the best of kings
Who loved his wife,
The rival of his soul.
His daughters however were feeble
And prayed in the gloom
Of a haunted tree
With words of love
For their voices to be remembered by him.
Then they were given a message
By a herald to go before
The king and speak to him again.
- Honey with Billy McBride


69.
Another year fell
And work was endured
By the best of survivors.
There was a deep stream
Where they washed their hands
Before taking their way
To the broad ditch
Where they labored over stones
With hands and feet.
Under the wonderful heavens
They struggled fiercely
With waiting there
Beside the walls
Of the great city for others.
- Grouchy with Billy McBride


70.
The sounds of spirits
Were heard on the ships
That sunk down.
Men shouted too
During the day for their souls,
Words of bewilderment,
Loud and long,
And a woman answered them
Before she disappeared
Into a high cloud.
She said her daughter
Would free them from the river
And save their ships
If only they would
Care more for the earth.
- Ora with Billy McBride


71.
The war was long
Between two woeful friends;
It wasted their youth.
Strangers heard
How their hatred for each other
Rather than love
Inflamed their sense.
One keen day
On a city street
The two boldly stood
In the dark rain
And confronted each other for a battle,
But their fathers were stern
And dashed through the wind
To reproach their sons.
- Teresa with Billy McBride


72.
Over a weighty rock
A man prayed
In the dark vestibule
For a stronger heart.
Storms rose
Over the acres of land,
And glowed with anger
Because of his long silence
About the war and oppression.
From them a voice spoke out
To him in the gloom as he cried.
It said: Fight off
Sleep and watch out,
For already the truth has come.
- Thrikbot with Billy McBride


73.
All turned peaceful;
Wroth passed away,
And a huge shadow
That reached over the margin
Of the deep sea
Shrunk in the day.
The Lord himself broke away
From those voices on earth
Who called for war.
The bravest spirit always
Had stood against the battles
That the rest fought,
And when the brave one
Finally withdrew from them,
They did end all of their wars.
- Arielle with Billy McBride


74.
In a famous country
Peaceful and free,
A leader died,
And it became dark and gloomy.
Beautiful days
Never again approached.
Bright fires
Assembled and spread,
While prudent men
And their friends went swiftly away,
Leaving the place
Burning and cursed,
In order to seek another land.
- Ora with Billy McBride


75.
A spacious home
Had a lofty design;
On it reflected the traveling
Scenes of the day.
Lights went over the pastures around
From golden heights
Till wide night
Struck and crowded them out.
Eyes and limbs
Hoped to confront
The spirit of darkness itself,
In pursuit of a wealth
In great sport
To fully seize all
They could from it.
- Libby with Billy McBride


76.
The world was replete
Before it turned mysterious.
And the records were left
With the most powerful hope
For eternal peace.
Angel and man
Compared delights.
Things did dwell in excellence.
Life itself was refined,
And love was still possible
With the Angels of God.
Days rolled onward;
In great bliss
Did each man pass every limit.
- Penelope with Billy McBride


77.
A wonderful monument
Here on the dirt
Had stayed until it decayed.
The shade over the rocks
Spread during the night.
Life was pleasurable;
The wind played
Amid the scattered darkness
And beautiful trees.
Youth danced
Through the busy city
Since their freedom was won.
But the sad night
Still hung solemn.
- Teresa with Billy McBride


78.
The gusty shower
Began to bring
More winds and clouds.
Monumental shadows
Climbed over the land.
Night helped
To make all seem deeper.
Chilly winds
Followed the steps
Of the dead season
Driving the time
Deep into loss.
Nature herself roared
This gusty doom.
- Diana with Billy McBride


79.
Wonderful sunlight
Bathed the spirit
With old questions.
Nothing had been made
On the good land
While sitting in the mud.
The toil of others
Now did nothing much.
The open sky
Was a great emblem,
A wonderful everlasting
Bright worth.
It turned bronze
During the clean eclipse.
- Bertha with Billy McBride


80.
The ground stretched out
Its solid floor,
Its low course
Was the back itself of the earth.
Dark down
It was full with smoke,
Nothing else was there
But a warning about rage,
Of which many still come to consider
Hardly wise at all.
"Rage was created
In the deep doom,"
It thus counseled,
"And must never clash with happy men."
- Honey with Billy McBride


81.
The warmth returned
To the broken country.
There were homes on the field
Under the dreamy sun.
Men wandered the pasture
Abandoned by time,
Forbidden into heaven
Until they were joined again as friends,
And only then could they return to holiness.
Such were the powerful boundaries
Between houses and households.
The day declined;
And those working outside
Came home.
- Diana with Billy McBride





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