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Blog Business
WordPress has become a stranger to me, and I am only slowly getting reacquainted. When I started posting here again recently, after a long time off, I was pleased to find that readers were finding my posts and often Liking … Continue reading
Persons
This morning I was hearing measures in our dream meter again. They are terse, as usual; short lines don’t permit a lot of explication. As always, everything means more than one thing. They only sound as mysterious as need be–we … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypal, archetype, experiencer, formal verse, imaginal, imagination, lyric, magic, poetic mysteries, poetry, prosody, symbolism, vision, visionary, waking dream
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More Than Happy
Images that shift and change even as I am describing them are nothing new. They take a light hand to keep in just enough order to prevent the dreaded mixed metaphors from breaking out all over. I’ve been reading about … Continue reading
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Tagged faery, formal verse, imagination, inspiration, lore, magic, mystic, mysticism, other world, poem, poetic mysteries, poetry, prosody, suicide, trance, trancework, vision
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No End of Dancing Days
Whenever anyone tries to shut you down, you are touching something sensitive, and there is a reason for the negative response. And–having touched nothing that I can tell, the word-processing program I am writing this on just disappeared my cursor, … Continue reading
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Tagged dancing, devotion, dreaming, dreaming awake, dreams, ecstasy, imagination, lyric, magic, mevlevi, mystic, mysticism, poetic mysteries, poetry, song, sufi, trance, trance-work, vision, waking dream
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Elf-Shot Arrow
The bells of the local Catholic church just rang out noon as I finished today’s work, only a minute or two ago. It hasn’t been that long since I always worked in the evening because the world outside was quieter. … Continue reading
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Tagged ancestors, faery, fey, folklore, formal verse, inspiration, lore, magic, omens, poetic mysteries, poetry, signs, song, spirits, spiritual path, verse
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Un-Thought-Out
This will probably be brief, because I am still considering what just happened. The verses to follow came very, very quickly; I only paused at one point because I was unsure I could hear clearly enough. I have been reading … Continue reading
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Tagged dorothy love coates, dreams, dreamwork, formal verse, gospel, inspiration, magic, mystic, mysticiam, poetic mysteries, poetry, spirits, spirituality, vision, visionary, waking dream
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Magic Is Afoot
Recent entries here have fallen into a format that I see some potential in and will probably use for a while. The Vita Nuova example I mentioned in an earlier post has always held a lot of interest for me. … Continue reading
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Tagged formal verse, grace, inspiration, literature, magic, omens, poetry, prosody, signs, writer's block, writing
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Changing Places
This is different and weirder than I have any idea how to begin to explain. The Poetic Mysteries clearly run very much deeper than anyone can see at any given moment. Because I intuited that I should study them in … Continue reading
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Tagged dreamwork, formal verse, lore, lyric verse, magic, poetic mysteries, poetry, precognition, precognitive dreams, psychic, word lore
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Just This Moment
Another piece hot off the presses, with some comments while they are still within reach: I have mentioned the idea of ‘parings’ enough that it seems to have sunk in. Not only am I considering how they present throughout the … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, imaginal, imagination, lore, lyric, magic, poetic mysteries, poetry, pre-raphaelite, romantic, rossetti, vision, visionary
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Grounding Oneself…
…On a Peak of Petals… First thoughts after rereading the piece to follow: How does one feel grounded, knowing the real ‘ground’ is elsewhere? The poems get pretty far out there sometimes–even I wonder if they will make any kind … Continue reading
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Tagged lore, magic, oracle, poetic mysteries, poetry, spirituality
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