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Cauldron Of Morning
04:18
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Wish I could follow Ancient tomorrow
To the mountaintop with Oberon!
Wish I could fathom Dreams of the Diadem
Chalices haunted by hebanon
Wish I could jingle Shoal and the Shingle
Rummage among the lost paragon
Wish I could tarnish those who would banish
Emperors of the fey wilderness
Cauldron of Morning, I come Greymalkin!
Paddock calls! Anon! Come in Chimney Djinn …
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Blue Beyond The Sky
06:00
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Here, darling do not cry, years will be lullaby;
Reach for me over the great grey Sleep -
You won’t be lonely, you will see:
I’ll be waiting by our Wishing Tree.
Green light the castle door, sands of a lost sea roar
Set all your merhorses free!
You will come riding here with me.
Ooh I still feel your skin, I feel you moving in,
See the Glashtin in the tide - Riding the Moonlight
Where the old wizardry writes:
‘If the Blue Beyond the Sky
don’t say nothing, don’t even cry,
then the truth behind your eyes could be anything,
spinning your life … over’
Darkness that Little Sleep, walks in the poem of deep
Seeks out the lovers to bear them home
We’ll sail together, don’t you know?
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I Am The Djinn
03:33
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Returning home again, where confusion reigns,
my resolution caged in endless refrains:
There in the distance larks descend, carrying balm
from distant lands: and I am the djinn -
Should I hide or should I play? Entangled in this fray
my fantasies of gain, follow me to Spain: There …
Shards of broken dreams scatter into paeans;
the shadows of the night ferry me from fright …
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Temples Of The Jaguar
00:37
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‘born of a race of strange things of deserts,
great temples, great kings’
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Beautiful Lie
04:19
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They come: the party’s on the road! I n’er know how
Roaming is the Role, and Romeo
is journeying onto the snow:
The Lie comes, The Lie will riddle my home!
A wave will glisten the tarmac, an aeroplane
on my mudflap; the Matador’s playing cards while
the bull talks to the bard … My Role is to fly,
the Lonesome can survive, t’ Lost come to the Fire
the rule is to come on dancing, and I’ll
never succumb to the laws of the Humdrum,
sleeping with the sun, drifting with the clowns …
The Lie comes, the Cheetah Cubs are in town!
the Sphinx sighs, the Lynx can jinx her way down
the Bee Bumps the fire hydrant and the water
spouts to the sky: cars turn to mushrooms –
right in front of my eyes!
The Lie comes, The Lie will riddle my home!
the Ocelot is trumping you to your bone;
the Bee Bumps the Beautiful Lie:
say Hello to the Beautiful Lie …
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Fai
02:58
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How now, o’ spirit! Whither wander you?
Over thine hills, over yonder dale
On through the bushes, on, on through the briar;
Over park, over pale, through flood, through fire
I do wander … everywhere, Swifter than the Moon!
(yes, even the Orb’s sphere!) Here … Hear
Bring your fey favours, loll in sweet sloth;
Sleek Midnight savours, vapours of the broth
Oberon blinks bees, passing fell an’ wrath –
Hang a pearl in every ear!
There’s a changeling in the Moon!
And your Dream Cat taps the Loom
And she’s here, Black Djinn spins near
And she’s far, dancing with stars …
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Dulcinea
01:49
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O Little Blue Bobbin’ Bell, Hey lay-lo,
Dibble-dee faerie toe, dainty toe -
O little dub by the dell, Ho! A Genie with a halo,
Hey lay-lo, Nay nay no -
O Djinn, O Djinn, won’t you play your part?
Begin, Begin, to open your heart - To Dulcinea!
O Little Blue Bobbin’ Bell, bold as Madame Binjai
with a silver-black nose - love your nose!
O Little blink by the well, Ho! A Diva with a dibbler,
Bee Ballerina toe, dainty toe.
('Cervantes, we also love you!' – Dulcie)
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Part I: 'Jinn Jinnee'
Jinn-Jinnee, O' Jinn-Jinnee, you're waiting by
the almond tree, I wish you happy, rustling years
dancing your smile around the leaves; deeper than
the sweet black sea, with genie eyes of golden green,
now dive into the dusky eve, Jinn-Jinnee…
Catakins, catakins, little green paws by the walnut tree
Jinnie-Jinn, Djinn…kitty-cat bells on a crackling bean;
Little Black Faerie Come to me;
wild Pantherlina, Burmese Queen:
down the Chimney - One, Two, Three! –
blows a burly storm and me, I love you Jinn-Jinnee
and things may come, and they may be,
for the dear beautiful bonny Jinn-Jinnee
Part II: ‘Sardathrion’
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Tree
02:55
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If there’s only one thing who knows how to move me
it’s grey-blue-green, and it lies inside the Tree!
As the years have shown us, we’ll go too far down
into the green light, to a space of our own.
Sly tree, you know me: I’ll have you … ! I can’t say:
How many shadows could I hold?
And ages span with my life, being trees,
in the still breathing of their leaves -
Oh an’ when the light falls, could I travel
where the sun goes? - sinking down into the Tree.
Feel the darkness moving, in her slow cooling
when the rain is slipping down, down, you can
hear the wood-knot sigh
There are oceans in here, creeping over me
with their infinitely blue-green hands!
Lines … slowly, drink of me too ... ! Then tell me:
How many shadows ... etc (repeat chorus, ibid)
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Yellow Leaves
04:12
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yellow leaves, come to me -
don’t you leave me blind!
When the world hums long and loam
When the distance bids you roam
When the sea turns green and brine
When you find your time….
turning ‘n burning in dream, golden you
hold onto me, coiling our fire in the tree, and we
will be summer, when the snow comes to the air
they breathe, in the fall of the yellow leaves
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Wendigo, Wendigo, Chimney Row;
the cat’s got pistachios but the wind won’t blow!
Wendigo, Wendigo, fall below;
the cat’s got its whiskers but the wind won’t blow!
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Lu-Lu’s not here, but Lu-Lu might hear!
Feijoa Faerie, feline-a-lady, hey nonni overday
Bryn o’ briar, I’m in a dream jar,
a thousand locks to try …
Oh, don’t you know gold burns the fire?
Oh, won’t you turn the key of the pyre?
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A Retinue of Mandrakes
05:21
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Nine blue panthers ran you down,
roaming an’ gloaming your apple round;
our Meadow of Poppies turned brown,
and pelicans turned into clowns -
Away and Away and Awake: a Retinue of Mandrakes
were coming to break over you.
Juniper berries will shake,
Your green heart will probably ache,
So tarry we’ve merry to make: a Retinue of Mandrakes
are coming to wait upon you.
Twenty-Nine Sirens were hauling down your days
and your gaze on the ever-now
So play and delay and be laid in their lake;
Be laid and be swayed in their lake.
Away and Away and Awake: a Retinue of Mandrakes
Are dying to take over you! They’re coming for you …
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Aphelion
04:28
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Dwindling away in the sun, Shivering over Oblivion
Lion and Leopard will come, Shuffling on to Aphelion
be my Sister, my Darkness, my Orcus, my Orbit,
my Hourglass, my Impasse, my Planet, my Amulet,
my Dreamcat, my Daemon, my Distance, my Artemis,
my Nadir, my Nebula …
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Colours of Angels
05:16
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Colours of angels, shadows of gold,
brushing the oceans, under your soul
Cats are Angels, sent from the Void,
to rekindle our Wonder …
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Louisa John-Krol Australia
Louisa is an Australian singer, composer, writer & faery storyteller who has released many albums of ethereal music on indie labels, primarily in France. She's completing a fantasy series, The Elderbrook Chronicles, with a soundtrack.
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