Ice phoenix hatches

Feathered in cold howling gusts

Of blinding white snow

Prologue for: Ripples to Waves

Prologue

Have you ever looked out at the ocean and wondered what lies beneath the surface? Of course not, you ignorant fool; humans don't think much of anything, do they? In that case, I'll have to tell you: people, but not like you-or me for that matter. Come, come, let me tell you a story-I won't bite. It all started long ago, when I was a young child, a people like no other ruled the world. They were incredibly small-almost microscopic-but they lived happily. Then came the humans; they took over and the small people were forced into hiding. But Mother Nature took pity on them and gave them a gift: the ability to breathe under water. She gave them a conch shell and told them that if it broke they would lose their ability. And so they retreated into the ocean; the conch shell has stayed in perfect condition-I know for I was the first of the Ocean People and the shell is safe in my house to this day...

The Shattered Light-Bridge

           Long, long ago when the world was new, twin babies were born at exactly the same time as magic was discovered. They were opposites; Krakatoa looked at people and they became ugly, while Gloria was born beautiful and everyone who saw her loved her. In the end, Gloria had 184 godparents and 67 fairy godparents. But no one wanted Krakatoa, for he was a curse on the house that held him. They grew up to be the first sorcerer and sorceress. There had been wizards and witches, but these two were immersed in magic from the instant of their birth. Of course, Gloria was a white sorceress, but Krakatoa, as always, was her opposite.
           Now in this time, there were no stars. Instead, there was a bridge of fine, lacy strands of light leading up to the moon, which did not move. Krakatoa didn't like this, because it was very bright and interfered with his spells of darkness. So he brooded in his foul laboratory and poisoned the air with the stench of burnt flesh, and finally invented clouds. He stuffed them full of toxic chemicals and choked half of the moon, actually burning it away and replacing it with anti-moon. Then he faded away the connecting bands of light, leaving only points that could not be reduced.
           He cursed the lights, saying "I command you, children of the moon,that every minute one of you will leave the shape of the bridge and never return, forsaking your immortality and connectivity, while every day one of the free ones will crash from the sky and one will fade to a weak shimmer." But Gloria cast a counterspell: "But every night I shall ride the Moon across the sky and collect the weak ones to reproduce, and I shall train the young ones and release them into the place of their ancient or dead ancestors, that the night might never be dark." So saying, she mounted the remnants of the bridge, shivering as the cold wind blew stars from beneath her feet, yet never faltering though she knew she would never return.
           As time went on, Gloria merged with the moon. You can still see her face in it

Blue-green paradise

Fish like gemstones, shining bright

Pool of waterfall

A Winter Sonnet

All around me snow is icily bright
I'm in a winter wonderland
There's a hole in the sky that sucks in color and light
And the sun a vacation will demand


Jack Frost is up to his mischievous tricks
Stripping trees of leaves and bark
And dropping snowflakes sided six
On a journey to embark


In a sled drawn by reindeer
Look, it's Santa Claus!
So be of good cheer
Give gifts before the spring thaws


Remember that the birds will sing
Then take off your coat and welcome spring!

By : Anonymous