Fictions and Fantasies

Sagas and legends told ‘round campfires and kitchen tables,

translate into novels, movies and family secrets.

Threads and tapestries 

of lives lived, wanderings wandered, fiction and fantasy thru' history ~ birth to death 

may not be sensational 

filled with deep poverty or opulent riches 

but just with day to day awakenings

to arise at sunrise, say good night at sunset.

To feel the joys of family or

the sorrows of family or ~

probably both of no great consequence

to none but the person of the moment

Legends with gold and black threads, 

truly lost in the mists of storytelling,

are trumpeted and embellished until

only heard as fiction or fantasy

but stories nonetheless ~

stories that excavate the past to show us

where we have come from ~

giving us a map to show mistakes or opportunities.

Our personal stories,

one crossing over the other 

colour and texture our days and 

whisper dreams through our nights ~

Sagas and legends told ‘round 

campfires and kitchen tables, 

warm fictions and fantasies

from sunrise to sunset.

“An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world.”

 Katharine Kerr, novelist

“The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, 

but the legend which he creates around himself.”

~ Oscar Wilde