Three Stages of Love

My fairy tale love was with a knight.
He stood under my window in the castle tower,
sang minstrels' songs of love and adventure.
I thought we would be inseparable forever,
kept pushing against the waves of old laws
in the world we live in.

My tough love came when my heart was kidnapped.
A barbarian chieftain wanted all of me for him only.
He fought many wars against the cross and himself.
I didn't know that my attempt to heal him
would hurt me in return.

My mature love is yet to come.
I see a son of king with wisdom in his mind
His word will heal my wounds from the past loves,
and his hands cradle me to thousand nights of sweet dream sleep.
I wish for courage to place my trust there.


10.01.2018
by Frouwelinde
for my life story

An Invitation

In an unexpected time I received
A greeting without an envelope
A welcome sent by the wave
Through the sea from north to south

I have told the universe

How the northern ways always fascinate me

Though my sinning ancestors

Had made me unworthy of it

Now I can't wait for the winter

I'll take my dream to fly with me

And cross the glowing rainbow bridge

To dwell with you in the land of myth

05.06.2017

by Frouwelinde

for the invitation to the midwinter celebration among the people of the past

The Merman

Oh life, I think I saw him!

The water spirit, my element

Do you remember two years ago,

I gave my voice to the sea-witch

to reunite with the prince

and stay in his beach castle.

Oh life, I think I saw him!

The water spirit, the merman

My water sign.

He drowned me in his enchanting words

I was struck with the waves of strange feelings

and I can't resist anymore.

Oh life, what should I do?

I took a terrible choice

to exchange my voice for a pair of legs

and now I am bounded to the prince

unable to go back to the sea.

Oh life, how stupid I was!

For thinking that I was the water sign

And now I saw him, I met him.

The merman who sang me songs

with his seductive voice

while I am bounded here on the land

with my beach prince.

by Frouwelinde

16.03.16

for the merman I saw in my life journey

inspired by Den Lille Havfrue by H.C.Andersen

Big wolf
with silver fur
Who do you love more?
The moon goddess or
the red riding hood?

More than three years
You stand on the cliff
Admiring the moon
There was a time
When she would come down
For a love dance with you

Big wolf
with silver fur
Who do you hold more dearly?
The moon goddess or
the red riding hood?

Maybe she's just a little girl
With a heart too pure to
dance the love with you
But she can sing as sweet as the birds
And she can dream as high as the stars
So will you love her more
after the moon had her eyes
on the eagle?

by Frouwelinde
Juni 2014
for the choice you had to make between us