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Never-Ending Indeed!
There’s no point even trying to catch up here–so much is in development. It’s all magic. I reached menopause, or ‘croned,’ about ten years ago. I could scarcely believe it–I had outlived my treacherous uterus! It was a most welcome … Continue reading
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Tagged faery, fairy tale, folklore, formal verse, holda, imaginal, lore, magic, nightmare, poetic mysteries, vision
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Waning to Wax
Secret lunar and menstrual magic flows quietly behind today’s work. It carries on with the recent theme, the latest stage in the Lovers’ story, but I have been considering which aspects of life I still have not listened to fully, … Continue reading
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Tagged formal verse, lore, magic, menses, menstrual lore, mentrual, moon, mystery, poetic mysteries, poetry, prosody, sacred, secret rite
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Nothing Is Everything
A change is come upon me, and I understand what it is. So many of the threads and pathways I have followed throughout the course of my work, for many more years than I have been posting here, have been … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, dao, daoism, formal verse, lore, lyric, magic, no-thing, nothingness, poetic mysteries, poetry, prosody, spirits, spirituality, tao, taoism
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Wine of Nowhere
These have been some unsettled and unsettling times chez J. It shows in the work. More and more, I suspect I know what is going to happen before it does, which is just all kinds of wrong. Some days I … Continue reading
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Tagged folklore, formal verse, graves, imaginal, imagination, lore, lyric, magic, mystic, mysticism, poetic mysteries, poetry, prosody, spirits, spiritual, spirituality, vision, visionary, white goddess
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Hoy Alloy
Still feeling a bit reflective, having realized how many people I have lost in recent years, and how much I still feel their presences. My late partner was a poet, storyteller, all around literary person, and had a much more … Continue reading
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Tagged celtic folklore, folklore, formal verse, imaginal, imagination, inspiration, lore, lyric, magic, poetic mysteries, poetry, prosody, seal, selkie, silkie, silky, spirits, spirituality, water-seal
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St. David’s
Today is the feast day of the native Welsh saint once called ‘the Waterman.’ Supposedly, that was because David–properly Dewi–abstained from alcohol. Odd, that–I live on a tidal river with many mariners for neighbors, and as far as I know, … Continue reading
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Tagged crossing-over song, death, formal verse, imaginal, imagination, incantation, inspiration, lore, lyric, magic, poetry, prosody, seal, selkie, spirits, spiritual, St. David, suicide, vision, visionary, Wales
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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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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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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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