Thread:Brigadier Barty/@comment-1859920-20120302033834/@comment-2246928-20150224162700

Terribly sorry for waiting a year or summat t' answer ye, old thing, but truth be told, this is a rather tough question for a chap such as meself. Hmm... Lessee here... I wrote it while I had a touch of the muse, and I simply went along with it, rhyming as much as I could with the imagery I had in mind at the beginning changing as the poem did. As I recall, it was originally intended as a riddle, Martin-style, possibly, but later morphed into the type of strange, mysterious words a Seer might sing on some stormy night. That is how Shiphra and her kin came to be.