The Fortune Teller | Avalon, England in 589

Ghost Warriors

We walk in the world of spirits

The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sunlight glimmers through the trees, Five hundred years in the past, One thousand years in the future, I cannot tell. It is a dream space, moving through time.

I have traveled To a new world. This forest is thousands of miles away, Yet connected with the one I walk. It is all one forest.

Are they angels or demons Or shades of men? I do not fear ghosts. He points my way, Then laughs and disappears.

Why was I shown this? Prediction or warning, To give aid or prevent harm, I am unsure.

I only know that someday, I will walk through that forest In the real world. The woodsman and the child await.

The Lady of Avalon permits me to walk in the Old Forest. She says the Mother looks on me with favor because of my connection with the child. The Mother longs for the girl’s coming though it will be centuries before she is born. Viviane

This poem is told from the point of view of a fortune teller, named Viviane at this point in AD 589. A combination of a curse and her own powers has allowed her to live many centuries and travel all over the world.

In our time, she hopes her life will change.

The spirituality of Avalon is a spiritual concept originating in Celtic and Arthurian literature, and later popularized in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s novel The Mists of Avalon and other novels of the so-called Avalon series. As a product of fantasy fiction, set in a fictitious British past (partly on the titular Isle of Avalon), the modern literary spiritual path draws on neo-paganism, such as Wicca, druidry and what is generally known as Goddess worship or Goddess spirituality/religion…../Wikipedia