It’s Friday the 13th! It’s St. Lucia’s Day! It’s also my birthday!
The Hobbit is my favourite book of all time, and in Hobbit-birthday fashion, I wish to give you gifts. So there are giveaways happening, as detailed yesterday -- do enter!
But here, in this thread, today, if you’re of a gifting bent, I’d love if you gave me any of the following:
1) a single line of beloved poetry (with attribution!)
2) a glimpse of a beautiful thing you saw during your day, in your own words
3) a description of a talisman you’d make to give me strength and perseverance whenever my heart falters, because the coming year is enormous and frightening, and I can use all the help I can get.
Thank you so much for being with me here. I hope you have a wonderful day, and an easeful weekend!
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Happy birthday! One of my favorite poems is The Mystery by Russian poet and writer Ivan Bunin. The poem is short and individual lines are not really sentences, so this is the opening sentence, which is six lines long -- I hope that is ok?
Он на клинок дохнул - и жало
Его сирийского кинжала
Померкло в дымке голубой:
Под дымкой ярче заблистали
Узоры золота на стали
Своей червонною резьбой
Or, in my homemade translation:
A breath he cast on blade of steel,
A warm blue veil that soon revealed
Gold script upon his Syrian brand:
Beneath the heat lines shone more brightly,
A filigree entwined tightly
Resting so gently in his hand
Original poem link: http://poesias.ru/rus-stihi/stihi-bunin/stihi-bunin10633.shtml
Have a wonderful day :)
Amal darling, mostly I just want to give you A Swedish to go with your lussekatt today. I don't know if you've ever had A Swedish as a drink, and I don't know if it counts as a talisman. It is steamed milk with cinnamon and cardamom and a little maple syrup, whipped cream if you want it. So much love, happy birthday, god Lucia dag.--Marissa