Willow's forge, and other poems

Chapter 13: 1. Dedication

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A varied set of poems mixes ballads, lyrical meditations, cant songs, and devotional sequences to evoke both rural and urban landscapes while probing longing, loss, faith, and the uncanny. Some pieces adopt narrative ballad forms to tell haunted or elegiac stories; others offer intimate prayers, mystical reflections, or ironic streetwise verses that capture modern motion and twilight. The collection balances storytelling energy with devotional and folkloric imagery, moving between direct emotion and contemplative spiritual seeking across concise and narrative-driven lyric modes.

THE LAST GOSPEL

1. Dedication

When Mass is said,

The music dead,

And the last lights upon the Altar-throne

Drop slowly one by one into the dark,

To the east

Turns the Priest,

And bows his knee before the sacred Ark

And whispers the Last Gospel through—alone.

So do I

When dreams die,

And love’s last wretched candle-lights are seen

Darkening upon the Altar of your heart,

Face the east,

And like the Priest

Say my Last Gospel through ere I depart,

And before leaving bow to What Has Been.