Ethan Bellamy
Poetry
Author's note
Many of the poems in this story were written by the author specifically for "Ethan Bellamy". Some of those poems were "born of the moment", as the emotion became too full and the writer lapsed spontaneously into a poetic form of expression. Other poems that are referenced in the story are by well-known poets, and one is in another language, a poem loosely translated by the author into English. Then there are poems written my members of the VoyagerAngel Message Board. These poems were either simply inspired by the story or written in response to certain chapters in Ethan Bellamy.
The Poems
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey [excerpt]
-
William Wordsworth
For
I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity -
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ETHAN BELLAMY INSPIRED
- Intala
I stand my ground as the words
either balm or tear at the open wounds,
pierce the defences and touch the very core of me,
merciless drive home the truth,
shed light on the deepest, darkest corners of my mind,
rage the fire before the embers grow cold,
join me in my loneliness,
rip through layer after layer of carefully constructed self protection,
coccoon me in warmth,
once more batter my bruised soul...
Just make me a promise.
Make me the impossible promise that some day I will find my own Ethan Bellamy.
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I sing to you, Mother, a lullaby
- vanhunks
I sing to you,
Mother, your lullaby
sleep now, my
angel,
sleep where you
may dream of the sun and the moon over Indiana;
Are you thinking
of me now?
Wake up, Mother
and see me here…
I'm here, here,
here.
Look at me, your
lost daughter is home at last.
Why didn't you
wait for me, Mother?
I need you too,
just as you needed me.
This world is
not mine…
I was great at
the trials, did you hear me?
I killed Tuvix
and Ransom
The Borg
assimilated me…
I saved Voyager
from the Devore…
I wrestled
Species 8472…
Kes went away,
Mother.
Mark went away,
Chakotay went
away…
Phoebe went
away.
Why didn't you
wait?
I'm dead…
Sing to me,
Sing to me,
Sing to me…
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Old lullaby
- unknown
"Kathryn
klein, ging allein,
in
die weite Welt hinein...
Stock
und Hut steht ihr gut,
ist
ganz wohlgemut...
aber
Mutter weinet sehr,
sie hat keine Kathryn mehr...
Kathryn
klein, ging allein
in
die Welt hinein..."
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Distant shore
- vanhunks
While walking on the distant shore
a chorus never heard before
did sound the heavens and the earth
and in the darkness of the firth
his quest to find that music rare
in vain it was, the lady fair-
- elusive air did haunt him...
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Homeless [excerpt]
- Paul Simon and Joseph Shabalala.
"We are
homeless, we are homeless
The moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
And we are homeless, homeless, homeless
The moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake"
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Best of both worlds
- vanhunks
He straddled the meridian
and pondered over left and right
for always did the need arise
to taste the fruit of day and night
no mind could fight the pull of love
for two who would complete his life -
he thought that one was not enough
that both would end his inner strife
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Raging moon
- vanhunks
Comes on the cycle of the ebbing tide
Whilst
now the hour of my reason died
This
madness gripping all of me too soon
will herald forth, the raging moon.
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The Navy Hymn [verse 1]
Eternal
Father, strong to save,
Whose
arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who
bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its
own appointed limits keep,
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For
those in peril on the sea.
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Ethan's Cave
- vanhunks
Three drones
were born in Ethan's Cave
they were his
kin he couldn't save
forever dwelling
far from home
they left him
standing in his dome
protected from
the world outside
created tales
for nations wide
- his sorrow never left -
He
saw them wave from forests green
where
once the unicorn was seen
where
once there was a heav'nly door
which
magic passage could restore
his
kin for all the world to see
and
let him taste this life so free
In
murky depths did Mélisande
she
waved in gentle, kind reprieve,
the
doomed Pélleas once more grieve
and
Ethan's courage to the end
unite
and love for brave new friend,
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Fire!
- vanhunks
O let my heart
forever burn in hell!
Where time is
written down as Death's great Knell -
when bleak my
lonely days shall be on Earth
I must lament
with stirring strings the birth
of Grief so
great that none shall comfort me -
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When firs rose up
- vanhunks
When firs rose up to touch the silver cloud
and melodies from larks and lutes their way
to bruiséd hearts did find, proclaimed aloud
it was her face that led his heart astray...
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I heard a thousand voices
- vanhunks
I heard a thousand voices speak;
I
spoke for thousands more.
damned to eternal fire
my mind was singed forever
by those whose lives were lost.
For mine was the rest of the restless,
mine were the dreams
when they came rushing to accuse.
somewhere in the twisting mires of my mind,
somewhere in the mists and shadows of my heart -
I heard a voice,
sensed a touch.
that voice belonged to you
that touch was yours.
I
knew then that my heart
would
heal
because
of
you.
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The Dreame [excerpt]
- Ben Jonson
Love,
in a subtle dream disguised,
Hath both my heart and me surprised...
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Would I die
- vanhunks
Would
I die were it not for you, sweet captain
for
surely do you ride on every journey to my heart
and
depart momentarily,
to
tease me with your return
delaying
it until I can no longer bear the pain
Stay
with me, my love
Live
with me and in me
Be
my present, be my future
be
everything, everything,
but
mostly...
just be...
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Die berggans het 'n veer laat val [Afrikaans]
- Boerneef
Die berggans
het 'n veer laat val,
van die hoogste
krans by Woeperdal,
my hart staan
tuit al meer en meer,
ek stuur vir
jou dié berggans veer -
mits dese wil
ek vir jou sê
hoe diep my
liefde vir jou lê.
and the loosely translated version of above poem in English:
Mountain Goose
- vanhunks
High above the
cliffs of Coniston
the mountain
goose a plume unsheathed -
with might it
pulled my heart to you…
I send this
plume as gift, my dearest,
and saying that
my love is deep,
my all, my soul
for you to keep…
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Osiris's feather
- vanhunks
Osiris, inflict your loneliness on me -
Let me have your pain and you'll see mine.
Give me something – one single feather -
Leave me with a memory, a haunting thought
to wonder forever about your destiny
to follow you in my heart
to unknown lands far, far away
where vistas become mirages in a desert,
while your instincts lead you there
our flight paths merge, is mine to share…
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vanhunks
March 2006