Welcome to the second wave of Mummies Alive Character Poems! I am your resident net Bard of Cyber- Musing . . Java Goddess! Thanks for reading! Keep the top down, scroll the keys, put the pedal to the floor as I introduce:

JAVA GODDESS WORLD OF MUMMIES ALIVE POEMS PART 2

Thorns -- Kalia written by Elizabeth Strong

I sit amid dusty scrolls

Papyrus invades my very soul

My life is lonely, no kindred spirits

Nor friends who understand or care

I sought fellowship in books

Fed my hungrey mind with tales

Male company I never craved

In seeking love I often failed

I remember my first love clearly

A randy youth of the gallent character

Who served in the Pharoah's command

The first blush of affections still on me face

whenever he came here

Ah the folly of my youth

He sought my hand with great endeavor

I felt that love had finally found me

Until I found him trysting in the shade

My heart turned cold and hard

In the garden I hear her sing

Ashake, Pharoah's Eye, voice on heaven's wing

Greatest among the Royal Gaurdians

In pharoah's court, all give her naught by despair

for she treads a path few women dare

In her a sense a hidden strength

I wish I had . .but her friendship I keep at arm's length

She is the Queen's Favorite bard

Her songs are of places I never knew

Not Greece, or Arabian, nor Syrian

Her true home lies far to the north

Ashake calles it by an odd name -- Eire

She sing of dragons, fairies, lost magic

Tales of love that are very tragic

How alone she is here in a land that has not

the green she speaks of as in her home

I nodd and listen to her words and riddles

as she tucks her to her fiddle

After listening to my thoughts

of how my life was as I was taught

Ashake nods saying she had the answer I sought

She sings:

"The Blue Rose of love can never be won

if glove or gantlet is always worn

Life can not be smoothed or undone

You must risk the pain of flesh agianst thorn."

Books of lore is all I seek

Desperate need for wisdom

In dreams, I ride in song and legend

Trusted friends in words and glyphs

I long to seek the firebird

Ride the griffon's back as I battle coldrakes wielding sword and spell

Ashake's words sing in my ears

"You hear the firebird's call

You seek the colddrakes's hall

A better advice I can not give

than those scrolls upon the shelf

Before you master others

seek first to master yourself!"

Amid the knowledge, I sit

and fear that I dwelled too long!

Dreams of dust, fleeting fame

I tear the papyrus in my hands

My soul cries, "Is there nothing more?!"

The palace is over run, the enemy is here!

Nubiens soldiers clash and run

I get my Queen to safety

What can I do I feel so small?

One by one I gut the torches sending the palace into darkness

for the life of my Queen I stay behind and cover her tracks

Bright blade flashing cuts me quick

I see my blood stain the lotus friezed wall

Vision blurs, I feel the grey lights dancing

The white lotus, the symbol of everlasting life, is the last thing I see

bloody fingers trace the lotus as Ashake's song drifts in my mind

"The blue rose of love can never be won

If glove or gantlet is always worn

Life can not be smoothed or undone

You must risk the pain of flesh agianst thorn."

My ka lifts to heaven

I finally understand

Sekhmet's Fire -- Joira by E Strong

Blazing sword of blue fire

Claws of steel, Sekhmet's desire

Firey Child of Ra

Hathor's sister past all mire

Lovely lioness in golden armor

Amazon raised in pure trust and honor

Tawny goddess of blood and healing

Enshrouded in a cloak of flame

Justice without mercy that rends and maims

Playful killer who splits her enemies

The Powerful One has come!

Love touched by fighter's power

Proves that fate is none more dour

To raise her blooody hand

In defense of Kemet's land

Do not anger this one mild

for she is truly Sekhmet's child!

Eye of the Pharoah -- Ashake by E. Strong

I am She, past the awakening of Time

whose lore and love speak of Truth

I am the Chosen of the Four

I am the dancing feet, music, laughter, and joy of Hathor

I am the wisdom and magic of Isis

My armor bares the blood stains of my enemies folly

I am she who sees beyond the viel

Healing touch or wrath of war

I am the hand of Maat the stays the fury of Sekhmet

on the scales of Justice

Behold I am Rhiannon, the great Welsh Queen, who rides Epona

when the walls of the worlds grow thin

I walk the realm of the Underworld and Otherworld and seer the souls to their rest

Fire walk with me! As the Elements guide us.

Drink deeply of the Waters of Life

How can you fight the Darkness unless you seek it with a heart of Light?

I am the candle in the dark

I cross the boundaries of the Underworld and spirit walk in dreams

Dreamwalker, Shamaness of Celts, Lady of Magic

I am Ashaket, Eye and Hand of the Pharoah!

Dream maker -- Mira

Sly blue eyes peer at last

at dreams long past

Cheerful face, visions pure

Radient goodness as a gentle lotus

Mist and twilight wrought

So holds the dreamer or so you thought!

Wisdom tells me to turn away

from shadows never seen by day

She brings peace that suffering redeems

Release your pain inside your dreams

She sooths when visions mourn

as grief becomes too much born

So fades weariness and woe

What lies in her own heart?

Only Mira knows.

Healer's Hands -- Ashake and Mira

Hands that have worked so after years of care

you can't betray me so you would not dare

To treat a life like a lamp flame

and so cruely put it out

But in a moment,

a shining moment your healer's oath in doubt

Hands without calous

you have not know death like this

You've lead men back from death

but you never dealt its kiss

But for once the pain is lovely

as the foe slumps to the ground

But for a moment, shinging moment

a life lost to my blade

And they'll all be proud come morning

of the killing by these hands

But that moment, that damed moment that no other understands

Of the hated horrid moment that sprayed blood on healer's hand!

(** Wolfrider's Reflection copy 1981 sorry to borrow a great song but I love this song! It fit Mira and Ashake so well)

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