I felt like this was a convenient way to get some criticism outside of my circle of friends, so if you have anything to say, let it rip!
My friend and I were joking about song lyrics a while back, and were subsequently questioning starting to get into music as a hobby/occupation in general. This was kind of the test run for my own ability.
We were talking about starting something that was kind of between black metal and pagan folk music. Being uneducated on the subject of paganism and knowledge surrounding it, the references are purely for atmosphere and probably not accurate at all.
The poems are sequential and follow each-other up, so they kind-of tell a story. There's no intended message, just a bunch of dismal, sub-nihilism rambling.
Ankou Scraped the Stones
1. The Psalm of Spring
[Oak]
The soil of promise
Warm but Cold
Here we lay our trust
Worn and Old
Our seeds live or die
The sound of the forest
A fog bearing silence
Winter slain by forces-
Of the spatial islands
It's wrath turned back again
"Come forth spring
bring life back to me!
I am lone
my seeds need to grow.
When the whole of the land is freed
then our home lays its hand to we
summoning the will to caress
this plot 'til we meet our death.
Daring the valley
With rock-shaking wrath
When the hills do come falling
The rubble will be our path."
May season turn
(May reason learn)
We only look at the buds
(We only think of us)
[Sapling]
The soil of promise
Warm but Cold
Here laid with their trust
Torn, Cajoled
Forced to live to die
A prospect after the frost
the hills were swept clean for us.
Beings' value now worthless
The trees have forgot their purpose.
Our roots hold us down
Can't escape the ground
Path for the wooden
Destined to be felled
Climbing towards the sun
Chasing wayward home
Gasping for a breath
Fighting to the death
My brothers murdered
Transcended by dirt
"These saplings thrown into life
(Aging to wishes and pleas)
Nature gifting many blight
(Disease to your hopes and dreams)"
[Nature]
"Such ill-tempered seeds
Ungrateful to me
Begotten Spite
Foolish and Naive"
[Sapling]
"Am I vain?
Are you sane?
Lift the guise of the spring
Can't you see them rotting?
Beings once suffering
Circling the rim of Hell
Once entranced by the spell
Of the spore yielding breeze"
[Oak]
"What pallor gnosis:
To break indentures of which grant you life.
Vapid rebellion, denying your soul.
Such callous voices."
[Sapling]
"Damned with thee cruelty
so rash and haughty
whore that forgot me
Over the clouds, why are you hiding?
Rotting stump, can you not reach at all?
How does one mock mortality
Never know to fear of their own fate?
Limbless coward, rooted in stars!
(Only looking at the buds
never thinking of us!)
When death falls the forest he'll tower us high
To combat the delinquent, bastard child of the sky!"
[Nature]
"Proffered to you was the gift of the air, earth and water
beholden are those blooming wisdom, distortion of value is where you falter
faithless little drones choose to live without aim
remember until you forget, soon you will be born again
only the stones are the ones who never change."
[Sapling]
"Years of torture testing patience
Judge our flaws, we are your creations
I've seen how the sky can punish the ground
When clouds fail to make their way."
(The soil of promise
Warm but Cold
Here lie the burdened
Worn and Old
Our seeds have to die
Only looking at the buds
always thinking of us)
2. Roots Beyond the Ground
[Stump]
Many years I dream death have me topple
There was no celestial being at all
Just a worn rigid figure standing tall
An ent walked the forest wielding a stone so gorgeous
It's handle carved from bark wrapped bones
I dare think of them modest, freeing us was their purpose
A rootless one itself
Saw us living in hell
[Earth]
Creatures of flesh
Limber and free
Footprints they etch
The rain wipes clean
Fields enraptured in life
Rolled in beauty of the light
Void skies leave the dark bright
Beasts thriving in the night
If you can outrun the wind
How can you not bear to live
If you can hide from the rain
How can you feel so much pain
Upon your leave of my arms
You are never free of harm
No path will run you from fate
[Villageman]
Once lost roaming the land, hopeless and damned
Pathless journey spawned by my yearning to be free
Came to meet the faces of a tribe so ageless
I could have sworn their ways newborn and wee
Villagers born by a withering forest of motionless stalks so compliant
Earning my keep I fell the trees
Walls and halls of lumber hacked and sawed left my hands cracked and raw
I commissioned a wall-less chapel
Where with my gestures I prayed
To the gods bound by Earth
You'll never find one to blame
For where go their paths
Or where carve their names
3. Slaying the Boar(The Recreancy)
Prologue: Council
[Juror Arnulf]
I've seen many men
Who stay long as the wind
What time will he stay
Look how sore, him, of our ways
A burden to our land
He fervent to the hand
Lord grace him in opulent waves
Does he try against the gift growing grain?
[Juror Haimo]
I've seen many men
Who stay as long last the land
(they)Defile the work of our hands
[Chief Odo]
Years I dream a snake trick our god
Coiled fiend, looks a saint still a fraud
Tired, we, of blasphemy
I deem he a curse to us all
[Jury]
Then away!
[Chief Odo]
Then away.
Part one: Uprooted
[Wanderer]
"Vosegus, let me free of these forests
I am lost, seeking sight of the others
Forgive my past of trampling your temple
The village called for builds monumental"
Follow the sway of the sky
Colors change by day and night
When they come in search of me
I hope the fall hasn't died
How far had we gone?
This walk feels so long.
Am I truly strong?
Lost on the way home.
for how many nights should I travel
for how many days should I rest
I have lost count how many times
The horizon has met Sun's caress
The leaves are falling
My knees are aching
My body is withered
No gods are watching
We are each-other's heathen
Them and I
Judging and scoffing
At the beings wrapping minds
I remember my faith outnumbered
Is it true? Have they left me to die?
The frigid night
Has tired my eyes
Captured the sight:
A walled home bright
Part two: Return
The gates opened
The warmth of the homeland
Lift my head to see
A twisted face glaring down on me
[Odo]
"An asset if you let free your faith
Instead plagued the land with your ways-
Of worshiping the ground and the people
hardly gracing the door 'neath the steeple
I sent you away to return with belief
Now, today, report: What do you see?"
[Wanderer]
"I see the values of people so cherished
crushed and ground by priests and clerics
So little you think of yourselves
Oh, I see all your worth that you repel
How I plea, just as you, our gods grant room to revel
In all of nature beautiful, thoughtful and free
Apollo, Rosmerta, Yawei
All of them are the same."
[Odo]
"Return from where you came and be damned as the Gauls."
[Wanderer]
"Gone is my home, stolen by Rome
Earth never spoke my name
If your god is silent
He is dead or lame
You take the work of your hands
And say he had shown you the way
I only know my people, they are my gods
Only you have gave me a path to follow
Only you have spoke my name
Soon I will forget it, too
When I become the earth, wind and rain."
4. Autumnal
Walking onward, headstrong
Beneath the dead sky
Rushing through the wood throng
Battling Midnight
Winter came early
Bitter long journey
No fuel for a fire
Rain has doused the lumber
I break the line of pine
New winds leave me colder
The only warmth lay 'neath my skin
The cinders of anger within
Autumnal is the life of man
changing like the season
Replacing all of my feelings
With soul-burning rage
The ground shakes before me
My fury is showing
As I pull the mountain down
With guttural roaring
I fall like crackling leaves
In a long mesmeric dance
and I will never return
To the branches that held me
Cut,
Down!
Laid,
Out!
I'll tame the land that tried to stop me!
Always,
Godless!
Humans,
Thoughtless!
I'll reach the firmament someday!
Soil,
Ensnaring!
Rain,
Destroying!
I'll have the entrails of the sun strewn 'cross the heavens!
I fall like crackling leaves
In a long mesmeric dance
Never will I return
To see the branches burn
Storming out of Hell
Once fooled by the spell
Of the hateful beings
Who ran my spring dry
Then had me expelled
Pull myself from the embers
The fall is over
5. Graveyard in Moonlight
Part One: There;From
Came-
to work the land
In their name
Commissioned the Chapel
where I Prayed
Gods bound to Earth,
none can be blamed-
where went their paths
where carved their names
as all the strength
of my faith
did fade-
Away
Spat every Bone
that held my soul,
Devoured.
Lobbed off the Bulb
stalk left alone,
Abandoned.
Trails won't appear
fleeing here,
Forgotten.
Part Two: Here;To
Fists blown cold
by mountain old
far from home
The black sky
guiding my way
far from life
Freezing, Falling Ashes
Plummeting from the Fire
Above the dark smoke that it passes
Wailing, Muffled Thunder
Circling
'round the darkness
Tracking
down the silence
Praying
for the heathens-
My Gods
Part Three: Stay
Bashful, Naked Trees
Shining, Virgin Snow
Hateful, Tired I-
Find myself in the ruins
of a land once live as mine
lores of the gods surround me
these hills,they siphon my mind
Where once came an End to the Madness
A land of peace, I now trespassing
Nature rules punishment for this Crime
Eclipse of my hatred and love
Now coalescing with the ground
I am an Interloper
Among the stones that mark the sane.
Death granting freedom,
exchanged for my pain
The wrath of the sky brings to trial
All that dared slip past the clouds
With the weight of their legs an anchor
They stayed 'til it all wore them down
When the demon arrives
She'll burn out my eyes
then wipe clean my thoughts
and steal back my sight
With clouds parting gently,
exposed so cruelly-
to the sky that refused me.
The glaring night-sun stares defiant
Swearing to Earth "His chore cannot end!"
When forth from the east burning anger
Comes evil forcing breath from afar
Sadistic mother, slaves she nurses
Demands obeisance in return
Even through so many minds
Even in the darkest night
I'll throw my power high
I'll die as many times
To bring damnation forth
To watch the heavens burn
Existence belongs to all and none
So it be claimed if all am I
When those distant skies become one
I'll kill every sun
Hope you guys enjoyed it.