cnoc-na-siog:

In Tir na nÓg, the Land of the Living Heart, Brigid was singing. Aengus the Ever-Young, and Midir the Red-Maned, and Ogma that is called Splendour of the Sun, and the Dagda and other lords of the people of Dana drew near to listen.

Brigid sang:

“Now comes the hour foretold, a god-gift bringing.
A wonder-sight.
Is it a star new-born and splendid up springing
Out of the night?
Is it a wave from the Fountain of Beauty up flinging
Foam of delight?
Is it a glorious immortal bird that is Winging hither its flight?

It is a wave, high-crested, melodious, triumphant, 
Breaking in light.
It is a star, rose-hearted and joyous, a splendour
Risen from night.
It is flame from the world of the gods, and love runs before it,
A quenchless delight.

Let the wave break, let the star rise, let the flame leap.
Ours, if our hearts are wise,
To take and keep.”

— Ella Young, “Celtic Wonder-Tales”

southernhelvetian:

I am a wave: on the rapt Cythrául
I am a flood: across the croggy plain
I am a wind: of seven gales
I am a tear: the Sun let fall

I am
Manannán
Mac Lir
Noble warrior of lycanthropy
I am
Fachtna
High King
To shake thy cloak shall bring outbreak

I am a tide: that drags to engulfment
I am a current: a compass towards Uisnech
I am a tempest: the onslaught of outburst
I am a zephyr: theirs is second pain

I am Manannán
Mac Lir
Avatar from sail to sea
Thy horse
Aonbharr
Grand Steed
Chariots forever lead

I am an ocean’s womb: of all abysms
I am a blaze: for every burning bathym
I am a lure: of the plumbless benthos
I am a breaker: bottomlessness doom
I am
Manannán
Mac Lir
Shape-changer; Lar of deep
Thy sword
Fragarch
“The Answerer…”

Remember me, thou art all wind
And back with gusts thou shalt return
I’m the hawk: above this cliff, behind the waves
I’m the thorn: exude this rose, yet fleece the sky

FLEECE THE SKY

I’m the hill: where poets walk and Tara lies
I’m the throne: from a tantalizing glimpse

FROM A TANTALIZING GLIMPSE

Hear the thunder roll
I am
Manannán
And fear the sky shall fall

For Manannán

mistsbetweenworlds:

Yours is the path I walked without knowing.
Yours is the the whisper that eases my fears.
Yours is the dread shore to which lost souls are rowing.
Yours are my breath and my blood and my tears.
Yours is the gateway that leads to tomorrow.
Yours are the depths and the tide and the squall.
Yours is the music that drowns pain and sorrow
And yours my devotion as long as waves roll.