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A Ritual drama

Let the forest make our ring Sentinels of time that bring An ebullience home to passers by The impressionable the romantics Why? Do robed souls find the need to go Into the forest, I dont know Rituals on a winters … Continue reading

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Phagos

A graceful BEECH In silence stands Frost decked branches No demands From wind today It all is still Its majesty is Now to thrill Stalwart in a ripe repose Taken for granted Though it chose To offer oxygen Everyday And … Continue reading

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a bee’s lament for a coming year of more slavery

Our golden trumpets Blessed by some The frenzied bumbles Who may hum The refined sugar That was left Instead of the bounty Of the bereft How much we slaved Collecting, we Covered in adversity Miracles they were the Bee But … Continue reading

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Willow

She dances at the water’s edge Willow her cascading arms Suddenly her magick speaks An elegance of worldly charms Her fashion sense seems all prevailing Her symmetry was never failing A real enchantress who doth share Her bonniness and graceful … Continue reading

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Which witch

Fly agaric Stippled red Smear the cream Is what she said Having loved her Through and through I Drank from the cup I thought was dew Flying over the trees Today My heart gave out Well so they say Slumped … Continue reading

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Crone

Each line Brings forth a memory What has she done Some eyes might see The forest is a restful place All this mirrored on her face The crone a women Lost to grief Clearly though Feels some relief In standing … Continue reading

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Where

Where ere it be It be and where The sentinels are there To share A winding river Giver True Of its reflections Old and new

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Life in all its splendour

Delicate activity The kingdom of the forestry Sprouting life that honestly Is searching for a soul Dewdrops hang there earnestly Savouring the sanity One small branch So nonchantly As beautiful as it can be It emits its own direction Truthfully … Continue reading

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Weaver

Leave him be The faceless me The words are where My love I share I walk with you I talk with you I do believe I spirit weave Come close and say Be mine today Dont walk away Come share … Continue reading

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A path to somewhere

Imagination AUtumn’s sweet repose Dappled leaf cover A path that just goes Into the mist Where the birches now grace Where the froglings all mutter And are lost without trace Swallowed up by the litter The leaves wet and true … Continue reading

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Forestier

The church is my forest The forest my church Lay under a spell And there she will perch sanctioned to surrender A potion of dew A notion of sap as we wrap On into She is Never excessive Expressively so … Continue reading

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WInter’s yule gift to some of its flock

Yule was no fool He was wiser than most He loved sough dough bread And yeast extract on toast A big bowl of oat groats To warm him all through And hot water and lemon Which made him feel new … Continue reading

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The rutting king

Red deer stags And rutting And their creativity Clearly thinking outside their box For originality And a probable cause or departure From the norm one just might say Its their individuality And a genuine display TO crown oneself with bracken … Continue reading

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The winter solstice at Stone Henge 18/12

A rather grey and sombre morning Greeted us as Stone Henge rose Slowly from its dismal slumber its welsh bluestones and sarson nose Sheep were Tasting verdant grasses sacred for these guys It lacked its normal definition but despite that … Continue reading

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BIrch

The first tree Of the OGHAM alpahabet From the sanscrit Word which means the bark that you can write on BHURGA sets our scenes It is Very much like paper Ruled by venus Culpepper said The first tree to come … Continue reading

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Natures palette is everywhere

Autumn’s brush strokes Give us yellow sunshine mustard so divine Primrose sulphur old gold too Look around and be amazed Honey coloured straw hats, Who? Wears them Good old Mrs Jones She’s the witch who lives away at Hawthorns With … Continue reading

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The humour in Yule

Winter comes Like beating drums Like frozen thumbs When a few chums Around a blazing Real log fire Sup ginger wine And I aspire To write A yuletide story And To tweet it to A far off land I like … Continue reading

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The significance of intricacy

Ribs like spiders legs abound Feathered fan like forms astound Each limb seen from off the ground Such intricacy that I have found A symmetry of solace sends To the tips and to the ends Gossamer wings now sailing free … Continue reading

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which way to priestdom

Is it a force of argument Or lateral thought Always at the beginning There were women they were sought Their life force took them closer To the egg and to the soul They had the power of wisdom And the … Continue reading

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YULE

WIth the bluestones from the Preseli Hills And sarsons what we now see In concentric order An observatory A temple to the sun A neolithic monument And today we are all here The cotswold order of druids All decked out … Continue reading

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RIver Bend San Francisco

The nobility of the wild and free With a pedigree and an ancestry In a rustic space where every face Has humility its just wants to be Part of the whole conceived of soul Unpretentiously its role Inoffensive unassuming Unseen … Continue reading

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Solstice silhouettes

The solstice silhouettes that fly Upwards into the night sky A moon which wanders to impose Its light source downwards I suppose A long night stretches far along The sun is coming back its song May warm the cockles and … Continue reading

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A short study

A blackbird just came to a tree And there she sits in front of me UNaware that I am here In my study and very near Its drab a sky of total grey And not a lot of wind today … Continue reading

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WOLF

The miracle of life Is granted on a higher level Than mankind and his foibles Can ever contemplate Each animal that manifests A joyful course of giving Is giving back a great deal more Than a novelist might state The … Continue reading

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A witch alone

In the woods we know its winter From tHe snow thats on the ground And the lady clad in crimson With her golden hair I found She is looking through those many trees All straight as I die And moving … Continue reading

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YEW

A sapling of the Bronze age Slowly reached the sky As it grew older it became hollow And you might ask why They might share their inner secrets With the sensitive who sees The wonder that is evident The great … Continue reading

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Spider magic

Forty thousands species 380 million years Mesmerizingly fascinating Global citizens too One hears Truly master craftsman Architects in fact With a logicality On how we should react A tendency to frighten Unfairly thought of they Take a lot of criticism … Continue reading

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To be humbled and then rumbled

The tiny threads of toadstools Hiding in the litter A spiders web that hangs off someones Car A snail that leaves a silver trail To somewhere far away A dew drop looking Like a star None of these might make … Continue reading

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YULE

The return of the sun With such light that has spun Through worlds of yesteryear Its capacious stare And far reaching view Bestrides the universal, true Its compass carves creates and states Its ramifcations spread Bring in some fuel To … Continue reading

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VISCUM ALBUM And the wild birds

A reciprocal relation And functionality Is seen a lot in Nature Its complementary And honest interconnection Really answering to Need for where there is wildness The weak may not get through The mistletoe a parasitic plant That likes to grow … Continue reading

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