Imagination Unrivaled

Imagination Unrivaled

~A tribute to the Master Storyteller~
~Tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien~

A mind of genius true, perhaps,

did course within a life so full,

and with a humble start so small,

a tale did grow and ever pulled

the heartstrings of so many folk

who read it once, and then again

as understanding made its way

into the souls of many, then

another tale, and longer, wound

its way into the mind and heart

of that dear dreamer, bolder still,

and so again such lore did start

to weave its birthing pangs along

the path where patience worked with will

to find and make the image grow,

and formed the shapes much larger still

and then became the magic words,

the pictures of a fertile mind

in constant searching out the ways

for which it should then leap and find

that greater still, the perfect work

for which imagination seeks,

as on it went then through the days

and nights of toil, of love, in weeks

and years of conflict, and of doubt

at times of self, but never dire,

as high imagination flew

on silvered wings and ever higher,

and made that tale for which it sought

so long and hard in boldest mind,

and crafted carefully a lore