Author's Note: Decided to try a tight six-line ballad form. Every other line rhymes and meter is 8/6/8/6/8/6 (syllables per line). To make myself even crazier, the first three stanzas use a unified "b" rhyme (ends of 2nd, 4th, and 6th line) and so do the last three; then the 4th and 6th stanzas use a unified "a" rhyme (1st, 3rd, and 5th lines).
ETA: Edited for teh dumb. As 2White Flame16 humorously said, "o.o But Inuyasha is human on the night of the new moon, not the full moon. He
ain't a werewolf..." LOLOLOL. Fixed it.
Ballad of the New Moon
18 April 2010
A young girl sat by fire's light
And stirred the embers so,
Her goal to make the evening bright
To chase away her woe,
For as no moon rose on this night
It was her true love's foe.
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Bright and full when it was round
She sorely missed its glow,
The white-maned boy the darkness found
His weaker side to show,
For though in strength he did abound
The new moon laid him low.
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"My love don't fret," the sweet girl sang
To try to make pain go,
The boy just let his black head hang
And shook it to and fro,
He'd neither claw nor sharpened fang
Himself to truly know.
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The girl had trod this road before
For several patient years,
Her mate, her love she did adore
And so when came his tears,
It chilled her to the very core
That he still held such fears.
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The girl had trained and fought and bled
Then home to make arrears,
Returned when doubt was fully shed
Oh how fate's arrow veers!
Her one true love she claimed and wed--
Still sadness interferes.
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"I love you, 'Yasha, through and through,
And when the new moon nears,
Love is love and just as true
However one appears.
I love the very heart of you,
And not just furry ears."
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"Oh, damn the moon, and damn the dread,"
His words they flew like spears,
She grasped his hand and worry fled
So clouded vision clears,
And boldly brought their bliss to bed
Like righteous pioneers.