Deidre's Song - The Ashwinder

In the wake of laughing flame
Winding through the ash
Embers watched him as he came
And then took out the trash

She knew only swathes of fire
Something tinny in her ears
Scented tears of hurt and pain
Saw him laugh and feed their fears

She lay on timber, gave a sigh
Watched the boy with shaded eyes
Let them take the boy away
And teach him all for naught was wise 

Deidre's Song - The Raven

The raven spoke of clouds of ash

(Fire and brimstone, ashes and bone)

A sky forever blackened

(Left to burn, nothing left to burn)

The pyre lit by countless worlds

(Nothing left but him alone)

The clock resets without us knowing

(Shattered that which keeps on going)

Deidre's Song - The Stag

Canter through the curtained woods
With antlers proudly swaying
The dappled stag its name denied
I bring the truth but truth divides

I've seen the box that once was closed
I know where leads all ley lines
I've felt the breath of spirit's wind
And heard the spider pull its strings

I saw my son pacing his cage
I saw my friends betray me
I saw my wife curse from above
The web he built without us knowing

Deidre's Song - The Sparrow

If only men could never cry
(A drop in the sea forms nary a ripple)
Cried the hunted sparrow
(A droplet of rain leaves almost a mark)
As the raven swoops below
(A stream joins a river that carves through the mountains)
Safe within a hundred eaves
(A dam brings the valley to its knees)

Deidre's Song - The Serpent

The serpent hides among the leaves
Catching stars from heaven
Cradled close to a gentle mind
Come children hide where light is fading

My dearest fled from whence you came
I know how it betrays you
I gathered him into my heart
Before his curse could blind him

He held the world within his hands
And so they sought to bind him
Until he stumbled on the lie
By which he lived and was to die

Deidre's Song - The Wizard

The wizard said the day will sow
(Held tight to a staff of oak and yew)
The land of broken wreaths
(Called forth souls on the mend)
Brought fire blossomed in their hearts
(Ashes and embers in the cleft of a hill)
And fed the drying wing
(Where nested the phoenix that burned with the land)

Deidre's Song - The Lion

The lion walks the circle wide

Drawing life from aeons

Pulls taut the lines of fate's design

Come crawling spider I am waiting

I crossed the river and the sky

And found the willow weeping

To plant a seed of my design

See spider I am also weaving

I may not spin gossamer threads
Which once you wove around my limbs
But with my life and with my blood
I'll claw my way out from your scheming