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The Meditation Cave
When I was 17 years old, I had a Big Dream that initiated me into poetry. It left me with questions that have slowly started to find answers over the years. My guide in the dream led me through water … Continue reading
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Tagged buddhism, formal verse, imaginal, imagination, love magic, lyric, magic, muse, mystic, mysticism, nonduality, poetic mysteries, poetry, taoism, verse, vision, visionary
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Looking Both Ways
I’m almost afraid to look back, but on reflecting, I think yesterday’s poem played a little trick on me. Why did bees appear? They have priors, but why just then? And birds all of a sudden? Oh. The Birds and … Continue reading
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Tagged equinox, formal verse, imaginal, imagination, love magic, lyric, magic, mystic, poetic mysteries, poetry, song, verse, vision, visionary
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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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Circles Join
3 March 2021 Yesterday I said that Yemaya had appeared in my work. I know her by many signs, but it took until this afternoon to make the most obvious connection. Someone I know died of drowning nearby, and one … Continue reading
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Tagged formal verse, imaginal, imagination, lyric, magic, mystic, mysticism, poetic mysteries, poetry, prosody, soul, suicide, yemaya
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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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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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