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Holy Dissatisfaction
Holy Dissatisfaction All night long I dreamt of perfect craft-makers whose flawless work imitated life better than life itself. Wonderful constructions of puppetry and shadowplay and weaving. But all...
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Belief and Angels
Angels There is one chance perhaps to become an angel and see as an angel does. It means gathering up the darkness of the logs and moss in winter – subsuming them and rising beyond their night-time...
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Favor and Grace – The Living Frost
Favor and Grace We look for the lifting of consciousness at the end of the year, the raising of comprehension. But really we should be grateful for the gift of staying awake. It’s easy to fall into...
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Advent and Evolution – Northern Lights
Advent and Evolution The fact is that all future cycles of evolution and epochs of civilization are played out as if behind the closed eyelids of the human being. The individual human being is the...
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The Horse of Many Storms
Animals I’ve been letting the animals guide me this week. They’re my point of entry into the conflicted world of human beings. My animals are almost unrecognizable as such because they spring so...
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Seeking and Arriving
When you arrive, you lose the wayfarer. When you find, the seeker vanishes. The conditions of coming and seeking are like second nature – the one is as certain and familiar as an old pair of shoes, the...
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The Cross of Year
Crossing Look closely. Look closely. There is a crossing over into the light. The year has turned. But is it the cross of the year or the Cross of Year? Is it the nadir of the four cardinal points of...
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St Stephen’s Day – The Bowl of the Heavens
The Bowl of the Heavens People have decided that the fabled day of 21st December 2012 came and went and nothing happened. Nothing changed. For me poems speak sooth, they tell the truth – particularly...
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Wind and Rain – Conscience of the Year
Last Days That part of the year which is both uncompromising and forgiving: the last days of 2012. My chosen images are those of the blackbird: his sleek, black feathers absorb all variations of color,...
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Of Angels and Chaffinches – New Year’s Day
Many Impossible Things ‘Many impossible things must be known.’ How I love to say that! ‘Belief is winged, make yourself come true!’ If you can’t help writing about angels is it because they are...
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Where Snow Flows with Fire – Dreamsong
Dreamsong In these bewildering nights where vast dreams turn like storms in their sleep, you might find yourself in search of love and its meaning. Everything is changed, nothing stays the same. The...
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Dreamsong
Twelve Days The twelve days and nights of Christmas (thirteen nights if you prefer) have played themselves out. Emotions are spent. Eyes open again as if waking from a great dream. Poets play their...
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Harmony of Worlds
Harmony The swirling cosmos with all its rings of angels lives within a drop of rain. Snow, when it feels its purity has grown too grey on earth, withdraws back into the mind that conceived it – a...
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Cloak of Stars – Individualizing
Individualizing The events of the world spill you into individuality. The course of history is also the path of evolution on which you walk into a more individualized state. This is also one of the...
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Window – Israel’s Children
Window ‘In him was life, and the life was the light of men.’ Some words are so momentous you can’t bypass them. Sometimes I wonder what one man, sitting in his room, can say about such things as life...
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Starshine Epiphany
January In January you are content to be small, to remain within. The wind and rain are sufficient to themselves and snow will swirl in other skies, touching you when dreams are deepest. Birdsong and...
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The Water-Maiden – Aquarius
The Water-Maiden Walking up where mist weaves paths out of nothing, leading nowhere, I look for the hidden soul of the month. This dear January is so patient, bearing the brunt of our displeasure at...
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The Allegory of Shadows
Pealing and Falling Is it the time of year that conjures shadows to the light – the approach of Candlemas, when the cherished groundhog rises to the surface to assess the season? If so it might also be...
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Asking Each Other
Asking So much time is spent on politics. But a storm is raging and will not stop until we’ve changed the world from the inside out. Until we’ve cried all its tears. I feel this storm inside me just as...
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Embodiment of Light
Light, Wind, Sun and Earth I watched for the embodiment of light in a flooded field. I saw reflections of cloud and sky – but light just manifested in them and passed on. I saw patterns of rippling...
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