An Easter poem

I found it - as it's a very long poem I decided not to copy & paste the text, but to copy the link instead:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159129/dream-of-the-rood-translation

It's appropriate for Easter, but it's not my cup of tea I'm afraid, it doesn't seem to flow well - although that's maybe because it's been translated - and I'm not keen on Christian themes. But it is interesting that a poem from that long ago has survived.

I found it - as it's a very long poem I decided not to copy & paste the text, but to copy the link instead:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159129/dream-of-the-rood-translation

It's appropriate for Easter, but it's not my cup of tea I'm afraid, it doesn't seem to flow well - although that's maybe because it's been translated - and I'm not keen on Christian themes. But it is interesting that a poem from that long ago has survived.

Thanks Lotus, I was wondering about finding it, I do read a lot of poetry and am aware of some Anglo-Saxon examples and also about their myths, but I cannot enjoy poems of great length. For me the beauty of poetry, well one of its beauties, is the condensing of huge and important concepts into small amounts of words, ideally no more than one page of A5.

Also, and just my personal experience, but anything to do with christianity is off my reading list having been emotionally and financially abused on two occasions by organised churches. One was short but of deadly insensitivity, the other was insidious and lasting a few years. C-PTSD is the consequence for me

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