From birthing wail to final breath
On turns the wheel of life and death
By moonlit nights and cloud dark days
We live and die by pagan ways.
By words and workings teach the child
By Summer breeze and Winter wail
By house and harvest, wood and wild
The way to walk the pagan trail.

[Rebecca L. Brown is a British writer. She specialises in horror, SF, humour, surreal and experimental fiction, although her writing often wanders off into other genres and gets horribly lost.]