Where are the fairies?

Where are the fairies? Where can we find them?

We've seen the fairy rings, they leave behind them when

 they have danced all night,

Where do they go? Lark, in the sky above, Say, do you know?

It is a secret, no one is telling.

Why, in your garden, surely their dwelling!

No need for journeying, Seeking afar:

Where there are flowers, there fairies are!"

--Cicely Mary Barker

THE ELVES

Elves are no smaller

than men, and walk

as men do, in this world,

but with more grace than most,

and are not immortal.



Their beauty sets them aside

from other men and from women

unless a woman has that cold fire in her

called poet: with that



she may see them and by its light

they know her and are not afraid

and silver tongues of love

flicker between them.

--Denise Levertov