Fruit and Flower by Dreamflower

[dreamflower]

B2MeM Prompt and Path: The Purple path; Prompt--“The gods were gathered on guarded heights, of doom and death deep they pondered. Sun they rekindled, and silver Moon they set to sail on seas of stars.” JRR Tolkien, Völsungakvida en Nÿja (Square 10)
Format: Poetry, Dribble
Genre: Gapfiller
Rating: n/a
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Yavanna, Manwë, Aulë, Varda, Arien, Tilion
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes (optional): This is a dribble, a poetic form in which the first line is ten words, and each line decreases by one until there is only one word.
Summary: Of the Sun and the Moon, in fifty-five words.

Fruit and Flower

Yavanna sang: in the darkness fruit and flower were kindled.
She offered them to Manwë, whose hands hallowed them;
Aulë made for the fruit and flower vessels,
that their holy radiance be ever preserved;
Varda took them, and fashioned lamps.
and the fruit was Arien's,
the flower was Tilion's,
sailing the sky,
Sun and
Moon.

Comments

[shirebound]

Wonderful! Really beautifully done. I absolutely love dribbles.

[dreamflower]

Thanks, hon! So do I.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

This was beautiful.

[dreamflower]

Thank you.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Beautifully constructed!

- Erulisse (one L)

[foxrafer.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of a dribble before. I like the structure, and this is beautifully written.