Surrender sky-clad to the Moon Heal, love, rest, grow, bathed in her glow Soul singing her clear silver tune Surrender sky-clad to the Moon Accept the Goddess given boon Love that will never cease to flow Surrender sky-clad to the Moon Heal, love, rest, grow, bathed in her glow
I have friends who actually go bathing outside all year round. Which makes me cold by just thinking about it. So does imagining dancing sky-clad to the moon in this freezing cold. So with a shiver and a laugh. This is tonight’s advent calendar post. :-)
Under a golden harvest moon I give thanks for the Goddess boon Cleansed by her mystical light Has freed my heart’s desire to write Enabled me to process what has been Find the healing Goddess muse within Explore the passion in my heart Down a new life-path start
Under a golden harvest moon Give thanks for the Goddess boons Bathed in her magical light Feel fortified and ready to fight Discover her path to find your twin The healing Goddess spark within Explore the passions in your heart Find your soul’s true art
Under a golden harvest moon We give thanks for the Goddess boons Blessed by her mystic light We see our purpose in our inner sight Gathered with our witch kin Each shining with Goddess glow within We feel faith in our hearts As each on their quest starts
Yesterday the nearly full harvest moon shone bright in the deep blue sky. My evening walk turned into a meditation of sorts. Keeping her in my sight as much as possible.
Lines of poetry started to run through my head. Spoken by my three witches. Resulting in this triple prayer. One for me, one for you, and one for everyone of us.
Goddess of water and star filled heaven Nurturer of the awakening soul Guide me in my journey through the seven Lead me towards wisdom to make me whole
Shower me in the water from your bowl Cleanse me with every colour of starlight Show me how to define a new life role Grant me creative visions that shines bright
Let my passions soar the heavens in flight Ignite and burn this nest of abuse thorns Teach me to understand mystical sight Help me to in hope and faith be reborn
Bless me as my inner fire flame and glow As stars above reflects soul sparks below
I can’t believe how fast April has gone. Last year I struggled to write something every day. This year, with the ekphrastic challenge to guide me, the only struggle has been finding enough time to write as much as I’ve wanted. Some days I’ve even written and posted more than one poem. Will sit myself down to reflect and praise myself this weekend, and think about where to go from here. The praising part is one that I have real struggle with, normally I discredit my work and move on to the next thing. So will endeavour to change that this time.
The last ekphrastic poem became another Spenserian sonnet, with the linked rhyme scheme of ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.
I had to laugh a bit when I wrote it. I’ve stayed away from trying the Spenserian one because I thought the Shakesperian ones were hard enough. But it turns out the linked rhyme scheme, reminiscent of Terza Rima suits me much better.
Actually really pleased with this one. Feels like ending GloPoWriMo on a strong note.
Humans really don’t know How life is to stardust souls Forced to hibernate like bears in snow Only feeling the truth trough small portholes
Humans really don’t know How life with an awakened soul Could lead to a constant flow Of abundant love through soul’s window
Humans really don’t know How life led by true purpose of soul Where gratitude leads to divine inner glow Calmly transform their minds inner fishbowl
Humans really don’t know How to manifest all they want via their souls How to choose lifelong learning and growth How into spiritual living while in flesh enroll
Written in response to the beautiful and thought inducing painting at Sunday Muse # 105. Made me read up on the symbolism on Koi fish. And they seem to symbolize a whole bunch of good things. Tenacity, Wealth, Abundance, Luck, Courage, Transformation, Uniqueness, Non-conformity, Family Strength and have lots of Buddhist Connotations. (source) Also linking to Writers’ Pantry #17 , Promote Yourself Monday, April 27, 2020 at Go Dog Go and Open Link Night: We are listening at dVerse.
One life Two hands Three in any holy trinity Four cardinal points Five sacred elements Six, love and sex, contain sacredness Seven chakras to shine clear Eight Sabbats in the wheel Nine, three fold law times three Ten Sephirots emanating divine light Eleven mysterious knowledge insights Twelve full moons, and one blue orange Thirteen witches in the magic coven
Nineteen, loving wisdom hope govern Twenty-Twenty karmic judgment appear, grow better, renew, global catastrophe draws near Twenty One light’s biannual turning point Twenty Two spiritual paths to ascend the three
We live in solitude, we three Three for one and one for three You will think us an apparition, you’ll see
Lives run by magic and moon Moon and magic sees us identical to humdrum brain loon Only a loon they say Sees witches on a moonless day
Just a platitude, that we can time fold We are not centuries old Just an old tale Again, and again re-told
Our roots run deep Deep down where shared memory sleep We feel the gravity of your leap Need to renew, to wonder keep
Like the canary in the mine Mine and your soul is on the line Soul locked in a dark cage, let it fly free – soar On inspiration dine Lore by unique poet voices shine
We are the circle of mother, maiden, crone In the circle we the Goddess intone She steers our lives with wisdom felt deep in the bone
The three witches appeared through my pen when I started writing poetry. They are free, headstrong characters that sometimes have their way with me. You can also find them in December Moon. Witches brew and Yesteryear Cheer.
I owe thanks for my inspiration to Kerry, without her prompts I wouldn’t have managed this, to Björn who showed how it should be done. And to Terry Pratchett for writing hilarious and thought provoking witches.
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