"Dio - God. Phase - a distinct period... forming part of something's development." (Wikipedia)
Tuesday 23 September 2014
Hazelnuts and Wisdom
How does the news of our sovereignty reach us?
A thousand miles away from home
in a tree hut on a golden dawned day.
or
Paired up pared down to two between towns on dusty road.
and
by what means
can we possibly know who messages are for
in what language and persuasion?
are they just words tumbling in no particular order
yet awkwardly organised in ways which
come together with
something of message
which, only half understood
and
yet it do burn within us
such that we have to let him out, see?
else we'd be bunged up with the flux
and choke to death on 'ee
Hear the quick note
fill up your lungs
and fly!
A thousand miles away from home
in a tree hut on a golden dawned day.
or
Paired up pared down to two between towns on dusty road.
and
by what means
can we possibly know who messages are for
in what language and persuasion?
are they just words tumbling in no particular order
yet awkwardly organised in ways which
come together with
something of message
which, only half understood
and
yet it do burn within us
such that we have to let him out, see?
else we'd be bunged up with the flux
and choke to death on 'ee
Hear the quick note
fill up your lungs
and fly!
Wednesday 17 September 2014
The Frog Prince
needing
transformation
helper found at well-side
promising what seems so simple
fulfilled
He was there not of his making and she there from her mother’s need.
He seized the opportunity, she promised.
The need was met.
Later came the time for reckoning.
Three denials and yet compliance at mother’s insistence.
Finally the revelation all’s well that ends well.
What’s it all about?
princes, frogs, mothers, daughters, wells, water and decapitation in order to live.
Paradox, unanswered questions abound ordinary reality is suspended in order to allow enchantment to take place upon life’s stage.
Transformation and potentiality abounds.
Monday 15 September 2014
Autumn Newnesses
Exciting times
new beginnings
story
sea/ land
seals
wisdom seekers
education
initiation
assimilation
years of seeking
questing come to this
story poem image book
stillness silence
prayerful peaceful
belonging
new beginnings
story
sea/ land
seals
wisdom seekers
education
initiation
assimilation
years of seeking
questing come to this
story poem image book
stillness silence
prayerful peaceful
belonging
Sunday 14 September 2014
Saturday 13 September 2014
Gentle Awareness
Said
I am the sustainer of life
breathing it (the universe)
into life
breath by breath
the story unfolds
refolds
until familiar
creases hold
the dust of me
Said
attracted to words
my moth wings
flit closer
risk singeing
death
for a life giving touch
of life
giving light
brought by wisdom
Said
change you know
resist we may
but instinct draws us
ever deeper into
misty mysterious
archaeology of water
Said
initiation
into stories
brings excitement
remembering
olden knowing
before I knew.
Thursday 11 September 2014
Thursday 4 September 2014
Unexpectedly
on an early autumn
morning
words cling to the mind
thickening
quickening
delighting in new found
freedoms
emerging from the insecure
landscape
threatening the vitals
somehow
in ways partially unwelcomed
but at the same time
in
awkward friendliness
and
familiarity