Black and blue clouds
Pour their frozen tears
Upon the barren ground
Trees sway skeleton arms
Reaching just short
Fingertips brittle in the frost
The wind moans
Its mournful song
Through those dark places
Where mortals do not go
The river's cold lips
Kiss the sides of the boat.
Carressing them
With ever-flowing hair
Dark eyes and midnight hair
Bone white flesh
Beneath a tattered cloak
Standing upright
Lantern in one hand
Paddle in the other
I set out on the desolate path
Lost souls before me
As the frozen tears fall,
The brittle bones reach
And the mournful song
Carries my boat
To the dark place
Where mortals do not go
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And not to be bothersome, but..
A farrier is a horse-hoof specialist...
Would you be meaning a Ferryman?
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She's dancing with the stars...
Living in the sky with diamonds...
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give a man a mask. then and only then will he tell you who he truly is.
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The boy I love left me stranded on this desert island of life called Conclusions.
somehow i had thought the word was ferrier...
like i'd heard it before
but turns out
ferrier is a french last name instead
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She's dancing with the stars...
Living in the sky with diamonds...
I love the overall feel of the piece. Then again, I love mythology-inspired pieces anyway,
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"Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person." --F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." --E.L. Doctorow.
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give a man a mask. then and only then will he tell you who he truly is.
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"Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person." --F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." --E.L. Doctorow.
I think you might want "Charon" here. Yeah, farrier is someone who shoes horses.
Nice sketch, very Byronic. Ells
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-milo
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give a man a mask. then and only then will he tell you who he truly is.
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