Dryad (plant spirit - ivy) - The dryad stands among her vines
of ivy thick and green
tendrils writhing bedecked with leaves
by eyes of man unseen
she casually leans beneath an arch
a portal of ancient stone
it's architects long dead and gone
naught but forgotten bones
With the aid of wind and rain
the dryad performs her art
healing the face of Mother Earth
of human-induced scars
Oread (Stone Spirit) - Oread with blood of stone
borne deep among the mountains' bones
delicate but hard and cold
Hammerfists she deftly lands
erasing signatures of man
satisfied in the rubble stands
One column she leaves erect
a monument to the arrogance
of its own creator's hands
A warning to those who will follow
those who would build here tomorrow
your works, too, will become your barrow
Creatures made of skin and bone
are finite, unlike those of stone
who always reclaim their own
Nereid (water spirit) - Waters falling creeping
patterns deep in murky pools
drips hidden in blackest shadows
Roaring waters fall
Indifferent to works of men
crumbling beside them
Against water and time
nothing stands forever
All crumbles in the end.
Dryad II
Mermaid - Siren sweetly singing
Neptune's daughter calls
lonely sailors, long at sea
to be held within her coils
to her scaly limbs, cold and slick
they go and do not care
if for but a moment
into her eyes they'll stare
then all goes dark as, their last breath
forms globes of shimm'ring air
slowly rising from submerged mouth
of the siren's lair
Atlantic Wind - A bite out of the beach
was taken by the last high tide
and on the ledge
of sand I stand leaning
toward the surf into the brisk east wind
thick with salt a briny mist
whipped from tops of whitecapped swells
that roll in to their secret cadence
from far out in the night-enshrouded sea
My shirt against my chest
my pants tight to my thighs
Fabric billows out behind me
like sails of ships unsheeted
The Atlantic wind, not cold but cleansing
blows through me unhindered
gLike
Elemental spirits