Taliesin
Here the Fish enters
the world of dark waters
pre-birth waters
water-world elysium
Lake Tegid and the magic weir.
Much does he grow,
many his transformations.
Warm are the waters
the dark waters of Tegid,
and they softly flow
downward as he grows.
Taliesin
is found in the weir:
Elphin finds him
in a bag of leather
where the waterworld dams,
where the womb-waters
are falling terribly
at the weir of birth.
The entering Fish
was the spirit of Taliesin:
his transformations
were the many souls and bodies of Taliesin:
leading him gently, drifting him slowly
into the bodily definition of Taliesin,
his bag of leather,
his separated skin.
And Taliesin, after his separated life,
his songs and his wonders, his challenges and his
fame,
shall enter again as a Fish,
shall know again sufferings and transfigurations
and the waters of Tegid.
For Taliesin was ever upon earth,
knew all things, suffered all things.
And Taliesin shall be
in many wonderful shapes,
a grain of wheat and a hare
sown and running
while there are fields and the spirit of men
leaping alive at a harvest, or silver in the waters of
time.
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