I've just begun reading the book..and I think it's a great book! ^_^ Here, you can discuss what you liked/disliked about the book and why of course. Also I would be adding random "songs" in the book, just in case anyone likes them. Personally, The staff of merlin is my favorite. So in the next post(s) will be the poems. Anything else?...Umm...so discuss! ^^ [/u]

The Ballad Of Avalon's Birth (part one)

The oldest song I sing ye now
Of dreams that yet survive,
Of yearning,suff'ring, hopes long lost-
And spirits still alive.

The mythic birth of Avalon,
A world begun a seed,
Embraces all we might become
And lo, what all we need.

Yet in the seed is found as well
The greed and rage and fears
That make the freely flowing rill
Become a trail of tears.

What shall become of Avalon,
Our dream, our deepest need?
What glory or despair shall sprout
From Merlin's magic seed?

The seed that beat just like a heart
Was won by Merlin's hand
When he the magic mirror saved
And found a distant land.

The Wizard Merlin lost his home,
Fincayara wrapped in mist-
But gained the seed, a simple sphere,
By endless wonders kissed.

So even as Fin cayara fell,
And heard his parting speech,
The Isle Forgotten joined the shore
Impossible to reach.

Next part will be continued in the next post, too long o.O

A day of miracles emeraged
From winter's longest night-
A day of wings, and children brave,
And dazzling dreams so bright.

Yet none of these could e'er outshine
The secret of the seed.
It held a Tree of boundless size
And lo, a whole new creed:

That creatures all might live in peace,
With Nature's bounty theirs;
That here between the other worlds
Exsists a world that dares

To celebrate the sweep of life
That walks or swins or flies.
To honor ev'ry creature knows-
A world part Heaven and part Earth
And part what win that blows.

Now mists surrounds another world-
The world of Avalon.
Its roots enormous are the realms
That all may live upon.

Above the room-realms stands the trunk,
A bridge that binds us all:
Between the Earth and Otherworld,
Our Avalon stands tall.

Okay...end of page, well in the book anyway, move on to the next section :)

And so the Tree's foundation is
The seven Realms of lore:
First Mudroot, where new life begins,
Maloch its name of yore.

Then Shadowroot, so dark and cold,
Lastrael was its name;
And Stoneroot with its mountains high
Olanabram became.

Now Waterroot, so wide and deep,
Brynchilla called at first;
And Fireroot, fair Rahnawyn,
By fies too often cursed.

Next Airoot, home to sylphs afloat
In Y Swylarna's skies;
And Woodroot, most remote of all,
El Urien so wise.

I ask again and asked afore
The question ages old-
Has never been foretold:

What shall become of Avalons,
Our dreams, our deepest need?
What gold or despair shall sprout
From Merlin's magic seed?

The Age of Flowering began,
The first of Avalon.
So came the founders of the creed:
Elen and Rhiannon.

As creatures thrived, they filled the lands
So wonderous and diverse.
The stars shone bright on Avalon,
And sang elusive verse.

Echanted portals linked the realms:
Serella led the way.
And Merlin left, though prayed he might
Return another day.

Then stars aligned in strange new ways,
Destroying cherised forms-
And soon across the Seven Realms
Began the Age Of Storms.

The wind of greed and arrogance
Blew now relentlessly,
And sucked the precious sap of life
From deep inside the Tree.

At last, long last, through Merlin's aid,
The storms of war fell still.
Yet now the winds of Avalon
Contained a subtle chill.

And so the agonies that birthed
The Age of Ripening-
A time when all through Avalon
The highest hopes took wing-

Gave birth, as well, to prophocy.
Our Lady of the Lake
Arose and did for all to hear
A Dark prediction make:

"A year shall come when stars go dark,
And faith will fall anon-
For born shall be a child who spells
The end of Avalon.

"The only hope beneath the stars
To save that world so fair
Will be the Merlin then alive:
The wizard's own true heir."

What shall become of Avalon,
Our dream, our deepest need?
What glory or despair shall sprout
From Merlin's magic seed?

-Okay here's the next one ^-^. This is called the Song of the Voyager, the next part.
Over the fathomless seas I have flown,
Searching for what I have miseed:
Land of my longing, sought yet unknown,
Alluring so none can resist.
Avalon...does it exsist?
Avalon....does it exsist?

Dark now the ai, and also my heart;
Low does my candle wick burn.

Seeking the Mystery-whole, not in part
World of most sacred concern.
Frail through my hope, how I yearn.
Frail through my hope, how I yearn.



-brb, I have to get off-

you posted all of the poems? that is so cool! i would never have the patience to write them all out, even though htey are great. i like the merlin books a lot better than the great tree of avalon books though.. they just seemed to be better written. i don't know why they seem that way though, being his eaarlier works and all...

I love the poems in the books...have you read all three books, or only the first one? these are some of my favorite books. Have you read the merlin series by T.A. Barron yet? I read them first before the great tree of avalon series.