Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin Quotes

“On the land an oak will grow
On a bough an owl may stand
From lasting cloud a rain will fall
Upon the earth to water seed.

Each to each returns its need
To act upon the other's call
No locking ring may stay the hand
Nor halt the seasons as they flow.

- Little Song”
― John Fairfax, Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin

“Outside november night gathers
With a harmony of autumn leaves
Blown down a wind.

Quietly by the fire Taliesin
Humming from within his closing hood
Places the seeing child on to a chair.

And the glowing head is clothed
In a vestment with bright
Colours spreading.

Together two voices rise
Until at the end of breath one soars
And one falls away......echoing.

- Circle of Gold”
― John Fairfax, Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin

“O I will accompany the wind
Until the chain
Of my white bones
Drifts like fine sand
And I become compassing.
I become the wind.

- Song of the Wind”
― John Fairfax, Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin

“Through nine months of history
I crouched in shadow
Listening to blood whispering.
As I turned towards the tunnel
Of birth I rode an endless
Breaker of blood to pitch
On a strand of life and death."

- Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin”
― John Fairfax, Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin