Title: Telumë
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Roof
Rating: G
Length: 109
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking. Title is Quenya for 'Roof, canopy, heaven, sky' per Parf Edhellen.
Summary: A somewhat metaphysical sonnet on roofs and walls, stars and sky



Oh stars make not a roof, nor air a wall
To hold them up, though both may solid seem,
And overhead, around, they do encompass all;
Tors and living trees uphold but a dream
For rain and wind and weather will rush through
Such fond-imagined windows, substance-less
The fire quench, the architect make rue
A construct of the mind, now comfortless
For Manwë's realm and Varda's is not ours
To live within unsheltered or unhoused:
Unmediated Song the spirit scours
Yet set within firm form new sparks are roused
   Above sound roofs and walls the stars sail high
   No bar to dreams that reach beyond the sky