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All Hail Hypatia
Concepts of Evil
Cyberspace as an Out of Body Experience
Erishkegal: Goddess of Thankless Tasks
Expecting the Best in Pagan Leadership
Guides for the Urban Pagan
How to Deal with Magic Interfering inTechnology
How to Start a Pagan Club
Magic in Animated Movies
Magical Safety & Skill Development
Monotheism vs. Polytheism in Contemporary Paganism
The Pagan Vocation
Secrets of the Inner Circle
Totems, History, and Evolutionary Complexity
Witches, Fire, and Other Dangerous Things
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Air Beyond Breath
And He Is the Moon Too
The Balance of the Wheel
Before Their Time
Beltane Faery Drum Jam
The Breath of Spring
Brigid's Braid
Bringing Beltane
Cornerstones
Craftwise
Dancing with Stones
Dragon Mother
The Dreamgod
The Eye of Mímisbrunnr
Firewheel
The God of the Waning Year
The Grain of the Gods
Her name
Invocation to Agayu
Invocation to the Sun in Glory
A Mother's Prayer
My Lover, Boreas
Red Moon Rising
The Rite Way
The Shells That Speak
Song of the Seasons
The Spring-Fed Spirit
Staff of Sun and Wand of Song
Summoning for the Feast of Ancestors
Vacillations
The Waters of Hades
What the Bards' Songs Say
a Witch's garden
With Every Fine and Subtle Sense Perceive
Havenspeak
Sample
The Waters of Hades
by Elizabeth Barrette
The Waters of Hades
--
dactylic couplets
Styx is the river of Hades below
Marking the bounds where no mortals may go
Winding the Underworld nine times around
Spiraling inward with nary a sound.
Charon the Ferryman waits on the bank
Taking his fee with a clink and a clank
Poling the souls through the currents of hate
Leaving them safely to meet their last fate.
This is the passage that lies beyond life,
River that washes us clean of our strife
Joining with Phlegethon, river of flame
Acheron also, the healer by name
Lastly Kokytos, the river of wails
Reaches the marsh where the dead tell their tales.
These are the rivers of Hades' domain
Marking the lines of his hidden terrain;
These are the rivers that all souls must pass
Once they have emptied the last hour's glass.
Learn them and honor them all through your days,
'Til you greet Charon, a friend to his ways.
This poem was written as part of the
Poetry Fishbowl project
, and sponsored out of general donations for publication in
The Wordsmith's Forge
.