Category Archives: Nature
Merrow
space Sea-maid with your red-feathered cap, standing off the wildest western shores no one will ever name: Sing to me the daze of that collapsing wave which beds my smile in yours: What draws you to this beach only my … Continue reading
Rain
space Our town has seen little rain all year. Brushfires hang their smoky rags in the air for all to breathe with lungs of dearth already narrowed by swamp allergens. Char-ochres crayon burning dreams, scotched lawns silo each day’s scorched … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Alchemies, Alcoholism, Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Blue, Death, Garden Lore, Grails, Grief, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Oran, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Prayer, The Sea
The Bealtainne Dance
This poem was written for and read at the Bealtainne (May Day) festival at my father’s megalithic park last Sunday. The pix are from the event. space In and out we come and go, our bright steps lacing tree and … Continue reading
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
Filed under Art and Heart, Creativity, Devotions, Immrama, Love, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Nature, Oran, Otherworlds, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Prayer, Sexuality, Spirituality, the library down under, The Sea, Voyagers
Florida Pastoral
space Driving back from Micanopy late afternoon the sun slipped from between the clouds to cast long shadows down the horse-farms, the scattered equines like swans, curved stillnesses on the rolling lawns’ mowed repose. Always just a short ways further down … Continue reading
Filed under Aging, Art and Heart, Arthurian Romance, Beauty Heals, Devotions, Floridiana, Grails, Love, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Otherworlds, Poetry
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
Miss Itsy Bitsy’s Steam-A-Weenie Toast-An-Elven-Throne Bikini
space There’s nothing like getting high in the woods, she thinks, freer at last with each toke to join the elves of Silmarillion in merry sport, swinging limb to limb through the dank foreset of delight. Or so it occurred … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Floridiana, Forest Shenanagans, Madness and Mania, Nature, Poetry
The Naked Singularity
space I. When a star collapses, spent of its fuel so much that it reverses pulse – refracting back all that once beamed — inversion mounts to a threshold beyond which everything dances behind darkest veils, canceling our ability to … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Alchemies, Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Blue, Celestial events, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Death, Devotions, Forest Shenanagans, Gnosticism, Grails, Greek mythology, Grief, History, Immrama, Madness and Mania, Memoir, Migraine, Mind, Mystery, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Noir, Oran, Otherworlds, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Psychology, Quantum World, Sexuality, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark, the library down under, The Sea, Voyagers
Creature Feature
space I’ve soldiered nature through a thousand drive-ins in this fakey fish-man’s suit, patrolling the mind’s lagoon of greeny silt-warm water for every threat of man though spawn of him I am, the awful frog prince with claws longer than … Continue reading
Filed under Floridiana, Love, Madness and Mania, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Otherworlds, Poetry, Water-Folk
