British Isles, Northern
Europe, formerly
druidic, judged too
quick and harsh,
still densely populated
by holy wells, holy springs
pre-Christian water spirit
Melusina, recorded
on pell, pagan sings,

bathhouse and pagan
springs forcibly seized,
return thermal water,
rid impostors disease,
religious frauds steal
poetic landscape,
proselytizing agape,
changing the landscape
"See the Light," gloats
with a sense of triumph
to rid the heathen site,

druidic European trees cut,
sacred groves destroyed
to discourage pagan belief
in tree spirits, Christianized
the calendar, pagan traditions
expressly forbidden, treaders
of grapes at harvest to call out
Dionysus like they had for
centuries long, "Wrong!"
Christian council ordered instead
when each load of grapes were
brought in, treaders cry out in song,
"Kyrie eleison!"

suppressing Yule, Christians in
authority frowned upon what
they called "riot and disorder"
cautioned their flock, "Do not
make vetulas,  (little figures of
old women) or exchange gifts
or supply drinks, soon pagan
wassail and gift exchanges would
become a part of  Christianized
Yuletide, religious stealers order
you to abide, camouflage words
so they think you, Goddess, don't
see they lied,

breath of the crone
Cailleach Bheare,
the north wind,
the ageless battle
between light and dark,
the cyclic nature of life
and the seasons,
bonfire, bone fire
to Wiccans, cast the
bones of slaughtered
cattle upon the flames.
bean sidhe, f*** like
banshees!


Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater