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Wounded to the Core: Chaucerian stanzas
If you would comprehend the world at all, imagine this: a place so pure and wild it knows just spring, not summer yet, or fall. Like a capricious, spoiled and errant child it knows not between sacred and defiled, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaucerian stanza, death, decay, earth, poetic forms, rebirth, rime royal
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An Ostara Blessing
Today the dark begins at last to fade, the Winter’s fulcrum balanced with the Spring. Once great and mighty shadows turn mere shade, and green returns to color growing things. Rejoice! The world is born again from seed. It cracks … Continue reading
Imbolc
As the world wakes up from Winter’s slumber, she starts to shake the sodden snow that lies heavy on her cloak of gray and umber. After the long months of silence, she sighs a slow breath of warmth into the … Continue reading
Eroica
Allegro con brio And so another year has come and gone. In that span, has any touch of greatness found me, or have I just been marking time, waiting for a something that hasn’t yet? Marcia funebre (Adagio assai) So … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, Eroica, heroism, Ludwig Van Beethoven, rebirth, spirituality
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