Bernician Poetry (15)

Keep it simple.
© D Heckels

No I won’t write you poetry
nor spin you any spiel
I will just say it how it is
to tell you how I feel

I cant dream mystical thoughts
and clever words that rhyme
in fear of iambic pentameter
going sadly out of time.

So I will choose to keep it simple
and hope its enough to say
I love you
And will tell you every day

Our Venerable Bede
whos art has been stolen
righteous be thy name
Bernaccia will become
our kingdom and will be done
in Berwick as it is in Hebburn

Give us this day
our daily stotty
forgive us our drinking
as we forgive those who drink with us

Lead us not to the South
so as to deliver us from evil

Bernaccia is our kingdom
with pride in this story
and never shall we haver
Amen

Ynys Metcauld
Lindisfarne (Island Of Winds)

© D Heckels


Permissum nos ostendo vos videlicet niveus lux lucis
Suo nos ut capimus ut fuga
Per pacis quod diligo in a niveus niveus dove
Mos ostendo vos via ut Olympus supremus.


With time and the light
And the hope that they might
See the sight and the vision so clear
In my hand and my kind
If you take you may find
There is no more to say or to hear


Let us show you the clear white light
Join us as we take to flight
With peace and love on a white white dove
Will show you the way to heaven above.


Do you believe
The clear white light
Is going to guide us on


© D Heckels