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Fairy lovers
Oct. 19th, 2004 11:53 amI am in a thinking doing frame of mind today, which probably translates as me being of no use to anybody.
There's a meme doing the rounds in which you put a poem in your LJ and anybody who reads it puts a poem in theirs etc. I love poetry and tend to do this whenever the mood takes me, so there's no point me adding to it - especially as many of my favourites are up already. So rather than add beautiful poetry, I'll let the spirit of the day take over, and add a couple of fairy ballads. Neither are great poems technically, but they're interesting none the less, and teach us how to deal with fairy lovers, advice I'm sure we can all use.
The first is True Thomas. This one gives you directions to Fairyland and is the inspiration to many tales including Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic. It is also a warning to those gentlemen who loiter under trees waiting to be kissed by strange women. If you are going to do this anywhere, don't do it on the Eildon hills, or you'll end up dressed like an extra from Men In Tights.
( True Thomas )
The next is Tam Lin, a poem which teaches us that Scottish fairies can be a bit mean. They steal, they screw, they get you pregnant, go through hideous mood swings, and their ex's are even more psychotic than they are: I have anglicised and annotated this a tiny bit to make it remotely comprehensible.
( Tam Lin )
There's a meme doing the rounds in which you put a poem in your LJ and anybody who reads it puts a poem in theirs etc. I love poetry and tend to do this whenever the mood takes me, so there's no point me adding to it - especially as many of my favourites are up already. So rather than add beautiful poetry, I'll let the spirit of the day take over, and add a couple of fairy ballads. Neither are great poems technically, but they're interesting none the less, and teach us how to deal with fairy lovers, advice I'm sure we can all use.
The first is True Thomas. This one gives you directions to Fairyland and is the inspiration to many tales including Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic. It is also a warning to those gentlemen who loiter under trees waiting to be kissed by strange women. If you are going to do this anywhere, don't do it on the Eildon hills, or you'll end up dressed like an extra from Men In Tights.
( True Thomas )
The next is Tam Lin, a poem which teaches us that Scottish fairies can be a bit mean. They steal, they screw, they get you pregnant, go through hideous mood swings, and their ex's are even more psychotic than they are: I have anglicised and annotated this a tiny bit to make it remotely comprehensible.
( Tam Lin )
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