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The Poet, The Bog, The World, and Me

 In "The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Glerk is a creature who lives in the bog with Xan, the witch, on the other side of the forest. As I read the book I've been finding quotes that sort of apply to our lives today. I'm calling the wise words of "The poet, the bog, the world and me." That is what Glerk tells Fyrian after he would tell her a poem. Luna had no idea where the words came from but Glerks wrote them. It is also said the Glerk is older than magic, so he thinks he can handle it better when Luna blows up.  

One Poem that stuck out to me was:

"Patience does not run 

Nor blow, nor skitter, nor falter.

Patience is the swell of the ocean;

Patience is the sigh of the mountains;

patience is the shirr of the Bog; 

Patience is the chorus of the stars,

infinitely singing"( Barnhill 136). 

I'm not sure why this stuck out to me but I know that patience is important to people in life. People who don't have patience will blow and skitter and falter. I think this quote means that Patience means we also need to be calm. It talks about the ocean and a mountain both of which have been on earth for a very long time. 

Another quote that stuck out to me was the first time Glerks said a poem to the little dragon named Fyrain and I think it relates to fear. In the book, Xan is worried because she is taking on a little child who doesn't know anything about her magic and is casting spells randomly and Xan is struggling to fix them all. She is trying to find a way to lock her magic so she can teach Luna about the magic and know what she is doing. after Fyrain asks has auntie Xan gone mad  Glerk tells Fyrain " No my friend, she has just found herself in deeper water than she has expected. she is not accustomed to not knowing exactly what do to.  And it is frightening her. As the Poet says, 

"The fool, when removes

from solid ground, leaps- 

From mountaintop, 

to burning star, 

to black, black space. 

The scholar 

when bereft of scroll,

of quill, 

of heavy tome, 

fall. 

and cannot be found" ( Barnhill 76-77). 

The beginning of this quote I feel is very relatable. when people don't know what to do in an unexpected situation it causes them to do unknown things. In this case, it causes Xan to try and create a potion to help Luna not blow and stop causing chaos. This book feels a lot like that quote. Nobody really knows what's going on. We know that Luna gets her powers from Xan but then we also see that her birth mother has some sort of power. There is a tiny dragon but we don't know why. And people don't know why they are supposedly sacrificing their child other than it makes the elders feel like they have more control over people. 

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