Solve et Coagula
This story was prompted by Hélène Vaillant’s weekly photo prompt challenge, “What do you see?” https://helenevaillant.com/2018/09/17/what-do-you-see-sept-18-2018/ I was but a wee five year old when my parents moved our family to San Francisco. It was 1968, and we moved right into the heart and soul of the Hippy movement in the Haight Ashbury. One would […]
Read More Cultural MosaicThis is republished to participate in Sheryl’s Daily Word Prompt: Diaphanous I’ve missed several weeks of Sheryl’s prompts as I have been working in the background on several ideas for possible themes and book ideas for my poetry. Diaphanous is one of my favorite words and I realized that one of my favorite poems should […]
Read More The DancerOriginally posted on Sun in Gemini:
Late Friday afternoon, 14th September. A group of travellers arrive in Bamburgh, Northumberland. Their intention is to invoke a landscape. The meeting place is one of the hotels in the village of Bamburgh, but the first destination is that liminal place: the beach – and what a beautiful place…
The Silent Eye Rested, the group of pilgrims gathers beneath the vast presence of Bamburgh Castle. The castle was restored to its present glory by the 19th century munitions entrepreneur and inventor William Armstrong. Lord Armstrong bought it from the Crewe trustees in 1894 for the sum of £60,000 – a fortune then. He went […]
Read More The Stone and the Pilgrim (2)Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Tree of Life by Mary Fleeson Today, all being well, I will be on Holy Island… Lindisfarne… for the last day of the Silent Eye’s autumn workshop. It is a place I love and have been lucky enough to visit many times now… but it can never…
This story was inspired by Hélène Vaillant’s “What do you see?” challenge, her beautiful soul and community of like hearted and soulful people. Thank you, Hélène for your generosity and holding a sacred space for us to express what is in our hearts through the lovely images that you share. https://helenevaillant.com/2018/09/10/what-do-you-see-sept-11-2018/ Photo by Hélène Vaillant […]
Read More The One SelfOriginally posted on willowdot21:
This is part of LindaGHill’s #SoCs for 15/09/18. The prompt this week is Post, use it as a word or part of a word. Rules and Pingback here Posthaste Nonet. Posted on the noticeboard Florence On the horizon, Behemoth waits Some say the strength has dropped down To tropical storm force…
This poem was inspired by Sue Vincent’s Thursdays #writephoto Prompt – Spectre https://scvincent.com/?s=Thursday+photo+prompt&submit=Search © Sue Vincent Photo “If I could make the earth and my dreams the same.” Higher by Creed Mater I pray, in silence, from dawn to dusk, drawn by mists that, shroud my heart, my castle, as I look upon, a grain […]
Read More MaterPrinciples of Fire (6) A Tribe of Two, by Steve Tanham. The Silent Eye “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi Jalaluddin Rumi was a 12th century Sufi mystic, whose approach to the ‘real’ was remarkably modern. […]
Read More Principles of Fire (6) A Tribe of TwoOriginally posted on theblackwallblog:
Happy Thursday! Yes, today is K’s Blog recommendation day, I’m working on them. Stay tuned! BUT FIRST! In the last year, something I FEARED was true. Has PROVED to be true! THE FORGOTTEN MOMS. That’s right. WHO are they? The majority seem to be woman in their 50s. Educated, smart, witty…
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