The Sphinx now, here we see her, is come away another world, what is it? Another world and coming hence towards, to us, by us, she sees so many. The Sphinx’s eye, to discern for another place, another level, still here, but not now, sees so many things. Sometimes she must blink. To believe. ToContinueContinue reading “The Sphinx’s Eyes”
Category Archives: Pages from the Book of the Guardians
Sphinx in the South: Interview with a Penguin
Looking South now, Southern Cross, anti-clockwise water, oceans, isolate. The Sphinx sought the seat of power in that place. So, said the Sphinx, you are the head Penguin around here. I prefer Empress, said the Penguin. Please address me as Your Majesty. No problem, Your Majesty. I come to you from a land mired inContinueContinue reading “Sphinx in the South: Interview with a Penguin”
Sphinx in the North
The Sphinx turned her face to the cold North and was in conversation with the Ice that lay there in mountains and floating plains. Well, oh Great Ice place, I expect you have heard from the Sun and the West Wind that I come as a supplicant, asking favour. The Ice was silent and flatContinueContinue reading “Sphinx in the North”
Sphinx in the West
Forwards and forwards now to the West, Westwards, Westerly. To the left looking North, to the right looking South. The Sphinx travelled. Maybe not, maybe the Sphinx just faced to the West, face to the wind. To the West, where the wind comes out the sky, where the wind comes come down to bend theContinueContinue reading “Sphinx in the West”
Sphinx In The East
Now and now, what a time it was, it was the time when all the knights of the world came together beneath the great banner of the Sphinx. To push and push away the ruination of that nation in peril. They pushed and stood as firm as can be, but many were lost, so thatContinueContinue reading “Sphinx In The East”
All At Sea
When the sphinx awoke, before she had opened her eyes, she felt the wind on her face, smelt the salt in that wind and heard the water roaring around her with the influence of the wind. On a ship then, all at sea. She rose to her four feet and looked out across the waves.ContinueContinue reading “All At Sea”
The Perfect Circle
In a small town not far from here, in a small house with a garden, lived a woman and her three children. In spring she planted vegetables and tended her fruit bushes and waited and watched for her garden to begin to help feed her children. As soon as the elderflowers were in bloom, sheContinueContinue reading “The Perfect Circle”
The Sphinx Looks Out
When the sphinx woke once more, she lay in a darkening cell. Stone by stone, mortar by mortar, her eyes raised the walls to the blackened timbers of the ceiling far above. A short and narrow window with not shutter, nor bar, made the light just a memory around the cell, its dark corners allContinueContinue reading “The Sphinx Looks Out”
King Goat
The Goat lived by the tree, every day it went to the river to drink. Obviously, thought the goat, because I can go to the river and drink whenever I wish, the river belongs to me. It is my river to do with as I will. I shall call it the river Drink. One day,ContinueContinue reading “King Goat”
The Wounded Sphinx
Now that the journeys were close to begin, the four Knights bade farewells and much vow to come and visit. The Blue Knights went first straight into the dark forest, keen to become to the great city of Az where their child would be raised. Not knowing. In a forest some may say that timeContinueContinue reading “The Wounded Sphinx”
The Guardians of the Cave 