Bear, Badger, Ghost (Part I)
Bear, Badger, Ghost were of the woods
And came now to the sea.
For all they’d met of mad and good
They’d never met the sea,
Had never touched, nor been touched by
The deep and vengeful sea.
They heard a crashing, cracking cry
And clack of crescent claws,
They felt a flash of lightless eyes
That promised deeper gods,
They rushed to see through sea’s disguise
And meet the older laws.
Bear was a hillside that awoke
From dreams of ferns and fens,
To find both Ghost and Badger poked
Inside him in their dens.
Bear, Badger, Ghost (Part II)
Bear, Badger, Ghost came to the sea
Still wrapped up in the frost
Of winter morning’s leafless trees
That clung to them like moss
All having come to find out where
Their mountains had been lost.
Bear bent his world to woodland care
And Badger followed close
Or went ahead to scout about
As they came to the coast,
Though, truth be told, this walkabout
Was led by little Ghost.
Sharp Badger came collecting claws
From sharper things than she,
So the world softened in her paws
For those behind the three.
Bear, Badger, Ghost (Part III)
Bear, Badger, Ghost reached shores in wait
For all who washed on down
To meet a rather wetter fate
Than those who never found
Their way to one of world’s betweens –
The last of solid ground.
Crab, Kraken, Eel were all called fiends
Though each one swam in grace,
They promptly threatened they would eat
The whiskers off their face
If they were there to try and cheat
The sea of mountains’ taste.
The second time that Ghost was born
Was sweeter than the first,
For Ghost now knew which paths were worn
For reasons bad or worse.
Bear, Badger, Ghost (Part IV)
Crab, Kraken, Eel were of the sea
And fought with their hearts full
Of pearls and peace and ships set free
By tidal push and pull
That brought their cannons up to warm
Their enemies’ thick hulls.
Bear, Badger, Ghost roared up a storm
To meet what myths may come,
And world fought world for mountains washed
Away as dusty crumbs,
Claw, tooth and tentacle were crossed
To see who would be chum.
Crab found her claws where flame met sea,
Deep in volcanic scars.
Her eyes were all anemones,
Her shell a fallen star.
Bear, Badger, Ghost (Part V)
Crab, Kraken, Eel; Bear, Badger, Ghost,
Were stopped in their great clash
By sudden knowledge that the most
To gain here would be ash,
The mountains were now of the sea,
Right there in each wave’s splash.
No mountains had been stolen these
Gods all fell on their own.
Their loss could not be changed, undone,
It lived on in their bones,
But Mother Nature’s never done
And mountains start with stones.
Crowned Kraken was a mountain once
And could be so again,
So he packed up his glacial haunts
And left sea to ascend.
Bear, Badger, Ghost (Part VI)
Crab, Kraken, Eel rolled up a tide
For Kraken to take with
To hold the heart of sea inside
The ocean’s deepest myth
As he climbed clouds to reach and take
His place in deep sky’s width.
Bear walked the ridge of Kraken’s wake
Still bent to woodland care,
Sharp Badger let go all her claws
For Crab to wield and wear,
Ghost of the mountains dropped their cause
And settled into Bear.
Eel swam the rivers up to see
Crowned Kraken of the woods,
A mountain also of the sea,
With all their mad and good.
Life, Magic, Mischief _______ with Kyle Mosher 