Category Archives: Creativity
Hallucinating The Dead
View of the St. Oran Bell Tower (left) and field of standing stones, Columcille, PA. space The voices whisper everywhere in the boneyard barrow of my inner ear. Who are these murmuring folk reminding me I’m no good, no god, … Continue reading
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Wind in the Trees: A Tale of Madness and Mystery
space Spring came early to the land; winter never just got a grip this year, for whatever reasons. Just about everywhere it’s greener and warmer than normal, for most a month ahead of schedule. Today in Orlando it was hot … Continue reading
Finn-gering
space When the fian are on the brink of the Suir, Culdub comes out of a sid or “elf-mound,” and steals their food three times in succession as it is being cooked. On the third occasion Finn ua Baiscne gives … Continue reading
Filed under Alchemies, Art and Heart, Blue, Consciousness, Creativity, eye candy for thoth, Grails, Immrama, Madness and Mania, Memoir, Oran, Otherworlds, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Rhetoric, Sexuality, Water-Folk
Sea-Copyist
space Quite the fool’s errand, eh Lord, measuring the breadth and depth of wildest seas with just these thimbles of white paper, a copyist in the sea’s scriptorium, writing down its book wave by gale by gloom. Might as well … Continue reading
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Water Master
space For some reason which is not quite clear the wise man in Irish tradition tends to be begotten by the God in the sea. – James Carney, Studies in Irish Literature and History A Dee n a nusqui nexamail … Continue reading
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Dreaming About Writing
“Lighthouse At Punto Sur” by Susie Clevenger. space In that dark surge of mayhem light I found myself pent, in great need to write. Maybe my mind knew it soon must wake to get to work here on the next … Continue reading
Filed under Blue, Creativity, Dream, Mystery, Otherworlds, Writing
Labyrinth
space Shine a light in here and you’ll find a once-gearless hell now churning in in a labyrinth tooled to proceed to the always next yet never final shore: A shire of glass beds and deep blue wells where she … Continue reading
Filed under Alchemies, Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Blue, Creativity, Culture, Devotions, Dream, eye candy for thoth, Gnosticism, Grails, Madness and Mania, Mind, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Oran, Otherworlds, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Quantum World, Shamanism, the library down under, Writing
Poets Anonymous
space What are all those fish that lie gasping on the strand? – Yeats Welcome friend, have some coffee to dispell the chill and rest that tired tailfin a while in this white plastic chair. … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Aging, Art and Heart, Blue, Creativity, Culture, Grails, Immrama, Literature, Madness and Mania, Oran, poetics, Poetry, The Sea, Voyagers, Water-Folk, Writing
The Tiddy Mun
space Limpelty lobelty the Tiddy Mun haunts the lost wetlands of my words, grey but not ghastly, a ghostly blue phosphor who perambles lands I will never know though I’m ever drawn there here in the next foray into water’s … Continue reading
Filed under Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Blue, Celestial events, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Devotions, Feral animals of the soul, Folklore, Forest Shenanagans, Mind, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Noir, Oran, Otherworlds, Poetry, Quantum World, Sexuality, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark
The Old Forest Road
space Taking a myth as one’s own is a way of reading opaque events. I have long believed that one’s personal history is simply a branch of a larger tree of mystery, the world’s larger soul re-written in the small … Continue reading
Filed under Alchemies, Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Arthurian Romance, Celestial events, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Death, Devotions, Folklore, Forest Shenanagans, Grails, Grief, History, Madness and Mania, Mind, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Oran, Otherworlds, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark, The Future, Voyagers
