Forgotten Ground Regained
Speculative Poetry: S
This page showcases poems that fit into the speculative space defined by the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genres. For more on this theme, check out the SF Authors and Fans page.
Science Fiction
- Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright
- Connect to Object-30-79-49-13
- Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal
- Disputation on the Knife of Scarlet and Scaffold
- From Hessen
- God of the Gaps
- I Don't Know What Comes After This
- I thought the end of the world would be more exciting than this
- Knot Loosener Memorial Disputation with Gas Giant
- Life
- Octopi Viewing a Submersible
- Route-Song of the Winged Folk
- Shadow-Shapes
- Solar Punks
- Spacepoem 3: Off Course
- Spearhand Faring
- The Blasted Brigade's Ballistic Bio-Armour
- The Day of Resurrection
- The Mages of Mars
- The Mountain, After
- The Scothan Queen
- To My Beloved Humble-Skit's-Talon, On the Occasion of the Fossil Ancestor Lightworks Project Missing its Connection Deadline
Horror
Myth and Legend
- Alliterative Aeneid Fragment
- Alliterative Iliad Fragment
- Ash of the Oathbreaker
- Beowulf: Grappling with Grendel (Keith Moul)
- Beowulf: Grappling with Grendel (Timothy Murphy and Allan Sullivan)
- Beowulf: The Haunted Mere (Timothy Murphy and Allan Sullivan)
- Beowulf: The Haunted Mere (Bruce Byfield)
- Beowulf: Home to Hygelac
- Beowulf: Fighting the Firedrake
- Beowulf Lies Dead Beside the Dragon
- Cain’s Kin (Grendel Alone)
- Catching Loopy
- From Artorius
- From The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan
- From The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh
- Gawain
- Gleipnir: To Bind the Wolf
- Grim Goes Fishing: from A New Lay of Havelok the Dane
- Hengest Wants War-Companions
- In Death's Dark Halls, a Dog Howls
- Jilted Princess Finds Solace in Wine and Cats
- Jocasta
- Journey to the West
- Lady of the Lake
- Listen, He Whispers
- Mother's Song (excerpt)
- Opening of the Gylfaginning
- Opening of the Háttatal
- Quest for Valhalla
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (partial translation)
- Skaði and Njörðr
- Still, Odin
- The Danaïds, Enrapt
- The Fairford Mermaid
- The Green Man Awakes
- The Lay of Thrym
- The Runes of Weland's Sword
- The Sais and Taliesin
- True Thomas
- Volund's Revenge
- Wayland's Revenge
- Yggr
- Ymir
Fantasy
- A Lay of St. Boniface (Masson)
- Ælfwynn, Lady of Mercia
- Aislin's Ride
- Beggar King
- Bjarndýr and the Marsh Monster: A Danta of Somhairle na Dagney (Lord Sorley of Gundarstorp), Scáeli of Linrathe (Empire's Legacy). A retelling of the Beowulf story set in the world of the Marian L. Thorpe's Empire series.
- Braedthurnir Tolfsaga the Tale of the Twelve
- Dragon-Fighter
- Epic of Lókka Fág Guínnas, Parts 1-2, Parts 3-4, and Parts 5-7
- From Bea Wolf
- From Ulfhildr
- Heavensfield
- I Find the Naiad's Place, and Mine
- Invocation
- Lament for the Fathers
- Loggen Crown
- Lords of Battle
- Músurdviða: The Lay of Mouse-Fate, Part I, Part II, and Part III
- Nu’Talli’s Lament
- Onslaught - An Eliksni war song about Six Fronts
- Ragnarok
- Sir Percival
- Song-Hall of the Bone-Mother
- Sail Away
- Skopunargodthsognsaga - The Creation Saga
- Stridth Sverdthannasaga - The War of the Two Swords
- Tha Spawnen a Scousenlish, Scousenlish a-singen, Scousenlish a-fallan lufen, Scousenlish an Scarren Yaweth
- The Battlefield
- The Death of Bowie Gizzardsbane
- The Last Valkyrie
- The Lay of Beoric
- The Lay of Géac Ettinfell
- The Lay of Fer’rall’s Restoration, I-II, III, IV, V
- The Lay of Lycäon, & the Gaerur-Dür
- The Lay of St. Boniface (Taylor)
- The Lay of the Lightbearer
- The Lay of the Sea-Wife
- The Tale of Skorri's Song
- The Testimonial
- The Waelsings' Revenge
- The Westfarer
- The Worm in the Wood
- Tropos: An Etude
- War in Winter
Tolkien Fan Poetry
- A Message for My Master
- A Good King
- A Selcouth Tree
- Crossing Forest River
- Ëarendil the Seafarer
- Farewell to Bëor
- From “The Tale of the Sad King”
- Hymn to Earendil
- Lament for Baldor the Brave
- Marching Orders
- Middling Earth
- Narn Hathaldir ah Aerlin
- Slaying the Dragon
- Sword-Maiden's Song
- Star-Moment
- The Archeology of Doggerland and Old Beleriand Alike
- The Choices of Lady Éowyn
- The Death of Bëor the Old
- The Lay of Baldor: A Play for Voices
- The Making of Angrist
- The Paths of the Dead
- The Redemption of Daeron
- The Song of Marwen and Fithurin
- The Song of Returning
- The Song of Shadows
- The Song of Woe
- The Star Enlaced: Gilraen in Imladris
- The Wight
- Tolkien Dreams
- Tolkien's Revelation
- Tree and Leaf
- Wruxled in White
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