Category Archives: The Sabbats and the old craft

The ice flowers of winter That bloom at my door That curl around blossoms And offer me more The inuit know it They see it its form Its crystalline pictures That change when its warm Its colour its texture Its … Continue reading →

Come to the orchard my lovelies Lets choose the tallest of trees The one that produces sweet apples And chives grow there under to please We are all here to wassail and to say We are now honouring you and … Continue reading →

We must honour all women This winter solstice The end of the year We must feel Their warmth And their strength And their masterful care For in essence it really is real Our mother the universe sweetly Nurtures our spirit … Continue reading →

Our imagination enlivened A dream state in regard The rural nature of our lives Captured by a bard Who puts his pen to paper Who lends his ears to hear Who watches all the dancing And knows now just how … Continue reading →

That ebony sky Welcomes the light The winter solstice Invites the light Lets start a fire With some old dead wood Lets dedicate Infinite light Which we should Be coming soon To bless the land An in the fire Lets … Continue reading →

Yule now known as Christmas Crackers part of the fayre Children are alleged to so love them The cordite smell that they all share As to the contents the crappiest stuff That most of us ever could see Made in … Continue reading →

There are green women But mostly it is the man This patriarchal ascendancy Just seems to go to plan The women in the parlour The men well god knows where But they become the green man And the women are … Continue reading →

Origins and tradition Are what its all about The unscrupulous cut the roots off Which is how they flout The sales of goods act actually Destruction is what they do Cut off the roots Or boil them It may last … Continue reading →

The breakfast table Far from sparse A sprig of the holy thorn A farce perhaps tradition Our Long serving queen The illuminati Its Feels obscene In Somerset To Glastonbury The uncle of Jesus Came to Wearyall hill And planted his … Continue reading →

Here they are Clad in their dress Ribbons of purple And red no less Some have masks Or blackened faces And they put us through The paces The drum beats roll Toe tapping stuff They dance and their sticks They … Continue reading →

At winter solstice The term is Yule When the wintry bite is cruel Its then we frequently sit close by The fire of life and remember why A toasting fork some home made bread A bowl of chestnuts and that … Continue reading →

The winter solstice A time when we Can eventually rest a while Merrily Observe the forest Its trees some bare Feel the firelight in one’s hair Know in the cold sod Seeds now sprout Boldly they venture In no doubt … Continue reading →

10 miles or so from Roll Rights The heavens opened, we Felt the wrath of Winter rain Its tumult frantically Reminding us it was Winter From the apparent Spring refrain We knew however our ritual Would clear the air again … Continue reading →

It was the dark goddess that both of us loved Her countenance and jet black eyes Each god gets six months to share her warm heart Then We battle and one of us dies When olly met his brother the … Continue reading →

Stonehenge perched high on that mightiest of plain Dancing to that really sweet soft refrain The sun peering down with its welcoming smile Its radiant light sent right off the dial And Escorted up to the stones were we A … Continue reading →

Ladies and gentlemen What you, have to know Is that druidic History From me does flow The banter of Santa Came from the green man With a bush for a face Well that was the plan The Norse God Odin … Continue reading →

From the darkness be inspired The Pole Star’s message Its so bright Feel the stillness Work with its Intuition from the night Grab the magic mistletoe Whose berries bring us light Right into the womb of Mother Earth Of snow … Continue reading →

The cherry grew it was bound to suit From one small stone It produced a root A branch a bough And blossom too That filled our garden With scent which drew A frog then seen To leap below Telling his … Continue reading →

Some seem flabbergasted by the world wide Internet It has changed our lives in many many ways And Computers in just fifty years Have leapt into the future Supposedly the new digital phase New languages are coming into being Evolving … Continue reading →

The death of the old year And the birth of the new The beginning of Winter And bubbling stew Stock up the squashes And the pumpkins for they Make a most wholesome dish At the end of the day Ghosties … Continue reading →

You can feel, the weight of the Sarsons Brought from the Marlborough Downs Could have been dragged Could have been bagged Could have been done with sounds They say it was ropes and pulleys Or great barges on the sea … Continue reading →

A coming together of friends on the earth Roll rights the backdrop with all of its worth A great spread of fields for all eyes to see In the comfort and shade of many a tree Our circle was cast … Continue reading →