Forgotten Ground Regained
The Origin of Language
Taliessin Lectureth in the School of the Poets
Then Man, the wielder ‧ of Words, awoke,Saw the sunlight ‧ slanting down,Saw the ground-fog ‧ swelling upward,Heard the light ‧ laughter of leaves,Climbed the mountains, ‧ mist-enshrouded,Felt the wind, ‧ wet with rain,Saw the stabbing ‧ stars in darkness,Watched the antics ‧ of wild creatures,Heard within his ‧ head the sounds,Pulled them forth, ‧ in patterns ordered,Uttered into ‧ air around himLiquid Names; ‧ in lilting language,Spoke the mighty ‧ Spell of Speech.
Originally published in Stars Through the Clouds: the Collected Poetry of Donald T. Williams (Lynchburg: Lantern Hollow Press, 2020). Reprinted in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 2, Spring, 2024.
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