The Faction


This is a small collection of bardic works by the Fir Cruthen faction, currently comprising poetry, but which will hopefully also contain art and prose.


(knot) Speak in a whisper now
Let clamours cease Nothing must dispel the gloom
The faded flower we see today
But yesterday was in full bloom

Death's icy grip has seized its prey
and claimed it for its own
Nature's noblest work is clay
The spirit flown

We feel now the chill of the earth
Life’s summer now flown
Light has departed
Darkness reigns supreme Alas, another Celt is dead.

Tuathal Mac Flannagan, Wild Elf Tribal elder.


(knot)

I am the dawn in the sky,
I am the spear in full flight,
I am the cup in your hand,
I am the voice of your land,

I know the ways of the three in one,
I know the Fae, who are long gone,
I know the days, from starts to ends,
I know my foes, and I know my friends,

I am the breath on the tongue of wisdom,
I am the heart in the body of the Kingdom
I am the fire in a warrior’s eyes
I am the hero that lives and dies

I am kin to the old wild ones,
I am kin to the bardic songs,
I am kin to all that is True
I am kin to your clan, and kin to you

I am the sword, and I am the song
I am the tongue that speaks no wrong
I am the cry, the warrior’s shout
I am the first to fight and not back out

You know me now, you know my race,
You know I bear your very own face
You know my words as you know your own
You know your voice, we are Fir Cruthen

Morgan ap Gwneddyn, Taniaste to Fir Cruthen


(knot)

As a babe we wake and greet the dawn
Of new life, and we join the song,
The thing we own, and will ever have
The love of the Goddess, the love of Badb

She teaches us to live, she teaches us to fight
She shapes our thoughts, so that we know right
Threefold is she, as is man’s age
As a youth, an adult, and venerable sage

The Maiden she is strife, chaos and war
She pushes us on, to live ever more
She is our lover, ever by our side
In mans heart does she reside

The Mother is succour, aid and home
She never casts us aside, to die alone
From birth to death she watches her children
She teaches us peace and to live with our brethren

The Crone, is old, and wicked and wise
She is heard in the winds howling cries
To her wisdom we can but aspire
For she is the end, she is our destroyer

As an old one we fall, and wait for death
Our sight fails, we grow short of breath
But for all that we lack, one thing we still have
The love of the Goddess, the Love of Badb.

Morgan ap Gwneddyn