Tag: Song

Man of Knowledge

Dedicated to Gwydion with loving and heartfelt gratitude

I’m a man of knowledge I’m a cunning man
The heart of the Labyrinth is in my hand
I arm myself with words that heal
For love and compassion forge my shirt of steel

My dragons are all in human form
And the internet serves as my horn
My voice rings out just like a bell
Calling all who are ill to my sacred well

I choose my battles with loving care
Show you’re not alone ‘cause I am there
So many fall to circumstance
Forget the art of war is the art of dance

I’m a man of knowledge I’m a cunning man
The heart of the Labyrinth is in my hand
I arm myself with words that heal
For love and compassion forge my shirt of steel

Listen to the song

© A M Hunter January 2016

Grandmother Weaver Grandfather Green

Grandmother Weaver, weave your web
We feel your threads about our head
Weaving and spinning thread by thread
Grandmother Weaver, weave your web

Grandfather Green, come spread your cloak
Of quartz bone and granite holly and oak
Through leaves and twigs your fingers poke
Grandfather Green, come spread your cloak

Listen to the song

© A M Hunter January 2016

This Darkness

I am wild
I am nature’s child
And I run through this darkness

With my claws and teeth
Search for what’s beneath
As I explore this darkness

Through the woods I prowl
Bare my teeth and howl
And I challenge this darkness

And then the prey is gone
And so the hunt is on
As I smell fear in this darkness

So off I race
As I give chase
To the one who flees in this darkness

And the fear smells good
Racing through the wood
I am the heart of this darkness

Till the prey falls down
Till my teeth pull down
And I hear screams in this darkness

And the flesh I tear
And the bones lay bare
So white and red in this darkness

And my flesh stained fangs
End my hunger pangs
As I gorge in this darkness

Feel the power serge
As our bodies merge
And hear me roar in this darkness

And I become aware
Of their still-eyed stare
And I am dead in this darkness

I look down on me
My torn flesh I see
And I mourn in this darkness

And salt water stir
And disturbs this fur
As I change in this darkness

And my truth I speak
I am not a freak
And I am whole in this darkness

For I am strong
I will carry on
And I’m at home in this darkness

Moon crowns this night
With stars so bright
I am one with this darkness

And the ground is me
And everything I see
And I am all in this darkness

I am wild
I am nature’s child
And I run through this darkness

Listen to this song

© A M Hunter 2015

Piper

Written during a weekend workshop on the Pied Piper, November 2015

Piper why’d you come to me
If a shadow’s all you’ll be
Who haunts me whether I wake or sleep
Lead me from this endless deep

Piper show your face to me
Such brilliant radiance I’d see
Appear to me and take my hand
Show to me your fabled land

Piper play your pipe for me
Lead me from my misery
Dance me through life’s ebbs and flows
Help me overcome my woes

Piper play your dream for me
A believer maybe then I’d be
Who takes life’s chances by the horns
Embracing life in its many forms

Piper such enchantments bring
Enticing all around to sing
Forget illusions that we hold
Understand our true pot of gold

Forget illusions that we hold
And understand our true pot of gold

Listen to the song

©A M Hunter 2015

WildWood Strut

Dedicated with love to Toad, whose wild and free spirit is an inspiration to all who know them

Travelling down the serpent road
Just to see how far it goes
Acting like I just don’t care
Hey Wow! Saw Stag and Bear
Sylphs salamanders undines and gnomes
Salute to the elements in their homes
Hanging out with Fox and Owl
Look Out! They’re on the prowl

Doing the WildWood Strut
Doing the WildWood Strut
Walking through the leafy green
Surrounded by what’s seen and unseen
Doing the WildWood Strut
Doing the WildWood Strut
With my emerald eyes and Cheshire Smile
Think I’ll wander here a while

Weaver guides my way with silken thread
On Grandfather’s bones through his leafy head
Look into the distance what do I see?
Hey You! Are you my destiny?
Down to see my lady with Raven Wings
Her skull crowned in silver moon’s crescent rings
Up to see Lucifer Lord of Light
Oh My! Been quite a night

Doing the WildWood Strut
Doing the WildWood Strut
Walking through the leafy green
Surrounded by what’s seen and unseen
Doing the WildWood Strut
Doing the WildWood Strut
With my emerald eyes and Cheshire Smile
Think I’ll wander here a while

Amble through the woods all shadows and dark
Lights guide my way with their firefly spark
Maidens all around me in fairy ring
Shut Up! Can you hear them sing?
Prancing with my fairy lover through the trees
Our laughter is infectious like some fluey sneeze
Embracing that bright green light within
You all! Are my WildWood kin

Doing the WildWood Strut
Doing the WildWood Strut
Walking through the leafy green
Surrounded by what’s seen and unseen
Doing the WildWood Strut
Doing the WildWood Strut
With my emerald eyes and Cheshire Smile
Think I’ll wander here a while

Doing the WildWood Strut
Doing the WildWood Strut
Walking through the leafy green
Surrounded by what’s seen and unseen
Doing the WildWood Strut
Doing the WildWood Strut
With my emerald eyes and Cheshire Smile
Think I’ll wander here a while

With my emerald eyes and Cheshire Smile
Think I’ll wander here a while.

Listen to the song

© A M Hunter 2015