Happy Birthday, Frank Herbert
Oct. 8th, 2005 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldritchhobbitHappy birthday to the late, great Frank Herbert (1920-1986), science fiction author and father of the incomparable Dune series.
In his honor, two of his more Halloween-friendly poems from Songs of Muad'dib: The Poetry of Frank Herbert.
You have loved Caladan
And lamented its lost host--
But pain discovers
New lovers cannot erase
Those forever ghost.
"Refrain from the Habbanya Lament," Frank Herbert
Nature's beauteous form
Contains a lovely essence
Called by some--decay.
By this lovely presence
New life finds its way.
Tears shed silently
Are but water of the soul:
They bring new life
To the pain of being--
A separation from that seeing
Which death makes whole.
"Zensunni Theme," Frank Herbert
In his honor, two of his more Halloween-friendly poems from Songs of Muad'dib: The Poetry of Frank Herbert.
You have loved Caladan
And lamented its lost host--
But pain discovers
New lovers cannot erase
Those forever ghost.
"Refrain from the Habbanya Lament," Frank Herbert
Nature's beauteous form
Contains a lovely essence
Called by some--decay.
By this lovely presence
New life finds its way.
Tears shed silently
Are but water of the soul:
They bring new life
To the pain of being--
A separation from that seeing
Which death makes whole.
"Zensunni Theme," Frank Herbert