tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845663240971126322024-03-12T23:55:57.441-07:00Wild Wordsponderings, poetry and pieces of stories foraged from the wild...Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-8093484679739644892021-02-10T04:27:00.012-08:002021-02-12T01:40:39.776-08:00Snowless in Sadness Copse<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcID2C-PH2mtHzTLFAfL-DYFpo6dpB5GTUpx5ey8jgSxowJJJguwqhCWsCZz7lTVo_-FlDlCR68QbSOKnaBe09qGx1oKuY0qPzAU7lH_etB2DUegSThP9FaPDAaFxK0mnjEyYvmH9rnIha/s2540/20210209_150848.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcID2C-PH2mtHzTLFAfL-DYFpo6dpB5GTUpx5ey8jgSxowJJJguwqhCWsCZz7lTVo_-FlDlCR68QbSOKnaBe09qGx1oKuY0qPzAU7lH_etB2DUegSThP9FaPDAaFxK0mnjEyYvmH9rnIha/s320/20210209_150848.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">No snow today,
sadly, where I live </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">up on the
hill a few feeble flakes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">fly on a frisky
breeze </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">then dematerialise</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">like the
ghosts of winters past.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Still, I
find comfort in the crisp cold,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">wrapped in
warm clothes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">yet not wholly
insulated</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">from the rasp
of raw elements</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">recurrently
connecting me</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: 150.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">with the
same </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: 150.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">instant.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: 150.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Walking
on, I relish </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the firmness
of the frozen earth</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">beneath my
feet, no longer mud-sliding,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">as they carry
me, unconsciously</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">to Sadness
Copse, which is</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">strewn with
recent memories:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">fire-blackened
cinders, manoeuvred logs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and the
familiar, familial </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">feel of
the place. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A place of
refuge, where </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I once
went</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">with friends</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">to salve our
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: 150.45pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">with the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Today - alone,
snowless, sad -</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m consoled
instead</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">by the stark,
leaf-stripped trees,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the ice-cold
clarity of the air</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and the tiny
tips of emerging bluebell buds.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m minded,
and reminded, to believe</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">That
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In <i>this</i>
place, I’ve founded a friend.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">one cold winter morning;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">her hands pink and glistening wet</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">as she fills a blue bowl to the brim,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and smiles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A week later, accidentally<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I find her breakfast bowl in the freezer,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">beside blackforest fruits,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">still full of ice-cold memories</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and smiles.</span></p>
Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-28141612102860604902021-01-14T09:19:00.010-08:002021-01-14T14:34:00.615-08:00Recipe for a Do It Yourself Wassail<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The word wassail comes from the Old Norse phrase ‘<i>waes
hael</i>’, literally meaning ‘be healthy’ (as in hale & hearty). It cultivates
& celebrates a sense of shared merry-making in mid-winter when it’s dark
and cold outside. In the West Country the focus of a wassail is the apple orchard, where we
gather together not only to bring cheer to ourselves but also remember the naked
trees in their dormant state – being thankful for their generous abundance over
the last year & wishing them well for the growing year ahead. It's a reciprocal ritual: a good-spirited, merry wassail
in winter ensures a good, plentiful apple harvest in autumn. Sadly, this year it’s
not possible to congregate with a revelry of friends and family in the orchard but we can keep
the flame alive with a solo or ‘bubble’ wassail in the garden or any local community space
with an apple tree…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8hE7GaMAafnSbGx4dnfYzC1Zz8H7NeIz7lditstL5MYv115AghAex5Uo2YIpfnuNNE6dtV0M6D4huCI5B3qcVK22HjdfV0XC5fv3H5gnL19oGlJF9Z23-HuZTJ7rWf7YWFrCOau1WgnJ1/s2048/20210112_191606.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1478" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8hE7GaMAafnSbGx4dnfYzC1Zz8H7NeIz7lditstL5MYv115AghAex5Uo2YIpfnuNNE6dtV0M6D4huCI5B3qcVK22HjdfV0XC5fv3H5gnL19oGlJF9Z23-HuZTJ7rWf7YWFrCOau1WgnJ1/s320/20210112_191606.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;">(Picture by Annie Maudsley)<br /></div><div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Key Ingredients</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">: pieces of
home-made toast, some local cider in a large jug/bowl (hot & mulled or cold
& au naturelle), a crown made out ivy and/or other evergreen vegetation,
old pots & pans.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Suggested method (adapt as necessary): </b><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 14.2pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 14.2pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Choose a Wassail Queen or King (or both!) from
your bubble to lead the ceremony. E.g. throw an apple to be caught or hide a coin
in a cake. If it’s just you, then that’s easy! The Queen/King wears the crown alongside
a suitable expression of serene ceremonial grandeur…</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 18.15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 18.15pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Process together <i>en masse</i> into the orchard/garden.
Music, dance and fire adds to the sense of occasion (otherwise hum the theme-tune
to the Archers out loud!) Make your way to the biggest/oldest/only apple tree
in the orchard or garden, known as the Apple Tree Man. Circle 3 times clockwise
in a merry, mincing manner around the tree then stand facing his trunk.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 18.15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 18.15pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Scare away the bad spirits and malignant elements
from the trees with loud noises: banging of pots & pans or howling loudly;
the louder the better (neighbours allowing). Some folk do this at the end but I
think it’s right to clear away the bad before inviting in the good spirits (or do both!). </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 18.15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 18.15pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Sing to the tree. There are many wonderful wassail
songs, named after their place of origin e.g. Somerset wassail, Gower wassail,
Cornish wassail etc. I usually sing these words: “<i>Old Apple Tree we wassail
thee and hoping thou wilt bear/ For who knows where we all shall be at apple
time this year/ For to fare well and to bear well and merry all let us be/ Let
everybody take off their hats and sing to the Old Apple Tree.</i>” (Tune here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05vfp66)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 18.15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 18.15pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Wassail Queen dunks the toast in the cider bowl
(called the Loving Cup) then places pieces in the branches of the trees to feed
the birds, especially robins (symbols of Robin Goodfellow), and to bring good fortune
and fertility into the orchard for the year ahead.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 18.15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 18.15pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Liberally sprinkle the cider from the Loving Cup onto
the roots of the tree, giving a little goodness back to the source of our sustenance. Don't forget to have a hearty slurp of cider yourself whilst shouting out loud:
“<i>Waes Hael!</i>” The traditional reply is “<i>Drinc Hael!</i>” meaning 'drink healthy' </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">(self-defining term!).</span><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 18.15pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 18.15pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -17.85pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Propose a toast, in words, to the Apple Tree Man,
such as this:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 135%;">Apple tree, apple tree</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 135%;">What you have given to us, we give
back to you</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 135%;">Grow well roots and bear well
tops</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 135%;">Next year may you have a bumper apple
crop</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 135%;">Hatfuls and capfuls and three-bushel
bagfuls</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 135%;">And little heaps of apples under
the stairs</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 135%;">Pip pip </span></i><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 135%;">[everyone
answers: hooray!]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 135%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 135%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 72.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi00IRQbV5fFgOdhZiu0uPgSHQUeGg9lXokZCoVZzpI1NpY2OTzwreyNbJ8ra-UAKXRPzXvc54CjKpvxWgSrDt5JAhATuoMgZEUWP48_L7PmhVOxkOW30YsykMETtnmWn6G-aktJFU1tpJF/s2048/WassailA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1228" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi00IRQbV5fFgOdhZiu0uPgSHQUeGg9lXokZCoVZzpI1NpY2OTzwreyNbJ8ra-UAKXRPzXvc54CjKpvxWgSrDt5JAhATuoMgZEUWP48_L7PmhVOxkOW30YsykMETtnmWn6G-aktJFU1tpJF/s320/WassailA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 135%;"><br /> </span><p></p>
</div>Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-55254465202238544022021-01-03T09:21:00.005-08:002021-01-03T09:38:19.151-08:00A river of words<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">My 9 year old daughter, Annie, and I have been spending some quiet time together, in these unfestive moments of midwinter, observing nature and writing. Recently we spent time by a local river and she wowed me with these perfectly poised written words... </span></p><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_2j3"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>I sat on the river bank, in the shade of an alder tree, watching the green water turn silver at the rising of the moon. The trees were black silhouettes against the red sky and long shadows were cast by the setting sun. Willow trees hung their orange branches over the river, dipping them into the cool water. Green waterweed waved in the current and tiny minnows darted about until they saw me and vanished into the waterweed leaves. In the middle of the river was a small patch of land, a tiny island. Yellow stones covered it and all around one side were tall lime-coloured water rushes that shook in the breeze. A crow landed on the island. It had dark eyes, shiny black feathers and ash-coloured legs and beak. I hid in the long grass so not to scare it. The crow went over to a biggish stone and used his claws to turn it over. Underneath was a wriggling pink worm which the crow immediately snapped up in his beak. I heard a rustling noise from the opposite bank. The crow looked up and flew away. Suddenly, out of a hole in the river bank, popped a small, round head. I recognised it at once. It was a water vole.</i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Annie Maudsley, 3 Jan 2021.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLkHbGmgDbI0pzVUtdximfz35WnyNNnT-OMszpz9l0NkTaN4UjsaFXeT3WsBQ-UPv1frCZfBG3ow7gWgUdujh9yQcalvjcw4aUXwVbqO78dRNe2g6bPvWrtPLXF4icFQrTBhyphenhyphenAuZJvbfc/s2048/20210101_105452.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLkHbGmgDbI0pzVUtdximfz35WnyNNnT-OMszpz9l0NkTaN4UjsaFXeT3WsBQ-UPv1frCZfBG3ow7gWgUdujh9yQcalvjcw4aUXwVbqO78dRNe2g6bPvWrtPLXF4icFQrTBhyphenhyphenAuZJvbfc/s320/20210101_105452.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div></div></span></div></div></div></div>Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-28645449222342784572020-06-10T07:37:00.001-07:002020-06-10T12:40:48.272-07:00This, that, then...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This walk,
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">up and over
Bothen Hill,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">is a
favourite way</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to make sense
of the world;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">let my
feet find a rhythm</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">for the
rest of me to follow.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That day</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the wind was
unsettling, creating </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">a swirl
of emotions, inside:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">uncertainty.
And the certainty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">that
things were changing, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">soon. The
way home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">was shadowed
by dark </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">clouds gathering
in the evening;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">like
crows and jackdaws </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">returning
to roost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">unexpectedly,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the sun
broke through.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Clear,
golden light falling, </span></div>
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<![endif]-->Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-78906311540740583282020-05-05T08:44:00.001-07:002020-05-08T00:08:04.510-07:00It's May Day once more<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">It’s May Day
once more</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">But no
Morris dancing at dawn</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Nor Mummers plays
making merry </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Around the
town, throughout the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Last night,
for once, for me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">There was no
late night </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Drinking in
the Woodman or the Royal Oak</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Nor camping out
in the woods </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">A stride away
from the Giant </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Astride his ancestral home on the hill</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">No gathering
of morning-after mates</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">With bleary-eyed
dawn choruses of</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">I like to rise when the sun, she rises</span></i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Yet still we
rise </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">My daughter
and I </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">As the sun
she rises</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">To climb the
hill behind our house</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Ready to greet
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Where Eggardon
Hill sits, brooding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">So we too sit,
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">More like evening mourners
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Than May Day
morn-ers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Drinking tea:
me</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Then there’s
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">In the
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Unexpectedly
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Undershot
with pigments of pink</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Our eyes are
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Our minds skittering,
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">It’s so
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">You got out me
of bed. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Whilst she
was in bed</span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Last night, I
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">A corpse of
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">To the side
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">An easily-reached refuge </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">In difficult times</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">And, strangely </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">A lone, long-stemmed
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Amidst surround-sound
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">I thought I heard
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">In the hawthorns
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Or perhaps,
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">This time, last
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Beyond the
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">In the
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">A blanket of
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the grassy slope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">In the
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">And it’s
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">Where in the
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">I’m waking
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;">And it’s May
Day once more...</span><br />
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Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-27716060718280794922020-05-04T07:27:00.000-07:002020-05-04T07:27:03.211-07:00Lost in Time<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>A reflection on the elasticity of springtime in the early weeks of lockdown, in this piece written in the middle of April 2020. </em>Published on the Clearing by Little Toller:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Recently
I’ve lost all sense of time. At least, time in the conventional meaning
of the word. Until recently, working as a freelance storyteller in
schools and community projects and being a parent of primary-aged
children, my time was planned, prepared and paid for. But now, like
many, my diary has been divested of all dates and schedules for the
(un)foreseeable future. The once familiar rhythms and routines of school
and work, home and holiday have all blurred into one; or rather none.
It reminds of something storyteller Hugh Lupton once said about there
being two types of time: time that travels forward in a straight line
and time that travels round in circles. By losing track of the straight
arrow of daily life I’m finding a more acute sense of circular time:
circadian and seasonal rhythms that regulate the more-than-human world
around me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This morning whilst writing my journal, which
has become a welcome refuge in a time of sudden storytelling silence, I
realised I had no concept of how long it had been since lock-down – 10
days, 2 weeks, longer? I can no longer identify the exact date or day of
the week, nor recall with any clarity the last day that I actually
worked. Even thinking of such things seems suddenly alien. Yet in a
short space of time my being and behaviour have adjusted, naturally, to
the movements of the sun and the moon. I wake each morning, invariably,
at daybreak with the curtains twitching and a dawn chorus of birdsong
outside in full flow. I open our bedroom window at night in anticipation
of the aural morning glory, and wonder why I didn’t do so before? As a
consequence of becoming an early riser I go to bed earlier too but
before then I crave being outdoors at dusk – to sense the soft blanket
of darkness closing around me. Like a seedling becoming gradually
frost-hardened I need to feel each degree of ‘dimmity’ – the slow
seeping of light. If I’m forced to be indoors I don’t switch on the
lights until the last moment; revelling in the strangeness of my own
house in the gloaming. We’re still lighting a fire in the woodburner in
these times of warm days but chilly nights and I love its flickering
light in the semi-darkness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After
supper, with the kids reading in their beds upstairs, I’m often
compelled to step outside to take in the night air. If I haven’t done so
already I’ll go for a walk, a circular peripheral route, around the
edges of the houses, beating the bounds of the village on my own. I
relish the stillness and the quiet (even more pronounced now) that
attune the eyes and ears to the small secrets of the natural world at
night: a fox tail disappearing into the shadows, a ruffling of someone’s
feathers in the ash trees, the distant call and response of tawny
owls. I’ll saunter slowly, pretending it’s aimless. Yet there’s usually a
pressing purpose behind my footsteps: to meet the other ruler of
diurnal rhythms – the moon. A few nights ago it was a full moon and the
thought of seeing it had been pulling at me all day. From our house I
had to walk around two dark lanes of houses before I finally found its
luminous form, rising huge and heavy behind a tree line. It was such a
jolt of joy to see it in splendid isolation against the deep-blue,
still-starless sky – just me and the moon. In Anglo-Saxon namings, which
reflect the seasonal rhythms of the land, this was ‘egg moon’ – the
time when wild birds begin to lay their eggs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the
garden a sense of time measured as growth is palpable on a daily, almost
hourly, basis. The onions, lost in their beds, are starting to reveal
their locations with green shoots whilst overwintering brassicas provide
a growing profusion of purple sprouting. Broad bean and beetroot
seedlings that were put down before lockdown are now ready to be planted
outdoors. Inside the greenhouse there are a dozen trays with seeds at
different stages of germination. I check them obsessively, several times
a day, giving the bigger ones a tickle to encourage strong growth, and I
can tell precisely which individuals have emerged since I last looked.
It’s a time-lapse wave of growth that nowadays I have chance to capture
in slow-motion. My time is lovingly lost in the garden; a morning or
afternoon is gone in the blink of an eye without any conscious
perception of its passing. Completely absorbed by the completion of each
task, one leading to another, I gain a sense of intrinsic satisfaction
that I rarely find elsewhere. I’ve been reflecting that I don’t often
get such opportunity to see the fruits of my labour: the story-seeds
I’ve scattered over the years have taken root and borne fruit (or not),
without me being around to witness them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Time, more than
money which has limited value these days, has become common currency
within our family. Spending time with each other, to some extent
enforced, has also become an act of intentional generosity. The other
day whilst on a constitutional family walk I impulsively offered an hour
of my dedicated time, freely and for whatever purpose, to the first
person that saw our first swallow of the year. The next hour was
consumed with four pairs of eyes scraping the sky, false alarms and
playful pranks. Until, in the same moment I heard its chattering call,
my 10 year old son spotted one soaring past and trilled in triumph. An
hour later, an hour in the garden was happily spent playing cricket
together. For a few days my 8 year old daughter has persistently
requested to sleep outside in the garden, under the stars. It’s been
warm weather for a while now but it’s still April-time, in Britain – not
to be fooled with. Nevertheless the next night, on a make-shift
mattress with hot water bottles in sleeping bags covered by more
blankets, we lie side-by-side in the dark. We talk in whispers, as if we
might disturb the night and spoil the magic. A story, a shooting star,
then I’m listening to her breathing slowing into deep sleep-time. I stir
well before first light and am surprised to hear an early bird, a
robin, already rehearsing its song. By dawn we’re both wide awake and
smiling, blanketed by birdsong in the chill of the air. Time well spent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Away from the garden, in the fields and woods around the hill that constitutes our realm of recreational exercise (and the <a href="https://www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/essay/dear-vodafone-by-martin-maudsley/">setting of a letter to Vodafone</a>),
the wildflowers are already flowing in spring tides of yellow and
white. In a quirk of timing this time-off has arrived during the most
prolonged and gradual of the seasons: spring. Where we live in Dorset it
stretches from January’s first stirrings through to the exuberant final
flourish of exuberance in May. These passing, anonymous days unveil a
series of sights and sounds that weave together into a symphony of
spring. The early snowdrops, in naked white, have given way to the
yellows of starry celandines, sunny dandelions and perfect egg-moon
primroses. As I write the cowslips have just arrived to graze amongst
the shaded grasses at the field edges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The April-flowering
cowslips remind me of a haunting fenland folktale I’ve been working on
called The Green Mist. It tells of a young woman who fell ill one winter
and became so white and weak it seemed unlikely she would last a day
longer. Yet she hoped that the fair folk might bless her with the green
mist that unfolds the flowers and lengthens the leaves of spring. So
that morning she whispered through her window in desperate hope: “<em>If only I could be as bright and alive as the cowslips that grow by the door, I wouldn’t mind if I faded, like them, in summer.</em>”
The capricious fairies listened and took her at her word. The green
mist came. She revived the next day and was full of vigour and vitality
through April, May and just into June but then as the cowslips faded in
summer so she too withered once more; her season at an end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m
currently trying to write a book on seasonal folktales and folklore.
With time on my hands it should be a good time, you’d think, to get on
with it… except I’m missing a sense of urgency. Although inspiration is
all around I’m so caught up in sensing the season it’s hard to find
motivation to be particularly industrious. But it’s a good time for
listening, letting stories settle in their own time rather than rushing
to write them down. I’ve surprised myself how averse I’ve felt to any
form of digital storytelling, or sharing stories online, although many
others are doing so eloquently and generously. Losing my voice and
vocation is teaching me to be still and quiet; to look at and listen to
the world where stories are formed. My friend and fellow storyteller,
Peter Stevenson, remarked recently how the time of year in folktales is
often denoted by wild plants and animals, each with their seasonal
specificity. Whilst the folk that first told these tales undoubtedly had
intimate experience with the rhythms of the natural world, we still
have that capacity for seasonal sensitivity that is both expressed and
enhanced through stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As I think on these things a
brimstone butterfly, fractured fragment of golden sunshine, floats in
and out of the garden, in a flutter. By the gate a little holly blue, <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">a</span>
scrap of cobalt sky, flits fussily around the overgrown ivy. All
morning speckled woods have flirted with the garden hedge, but kept
their social distance. Then I suddenly feel the zing of spring as an
orange tip arrives and alights on purple flower: an open-hearted
honesty. Butterflies are such soulful sights – the ancient Greeks named
them <em>pyche</em>, which also means soul. I recall a strange and
charming Japanese folktale I’ve sometimes told about two friends who
were walking together admiring the cherry blossom of spring: sakusura
season. After lunch one of the friends falls asleep, beneath a bower of
flowers, and dreams that he becomes a butterfly. On waking his friend
tells him that whilst sleeping a little blue butterfly flew out of his
mouth and fluttered around the trees. Man dreaming butterfly, or the
other way round?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Springtime brings other welcome wings:
migrant birds returning with the annual regularity that regulates our
well-being. From the beginning of March my ears are attuned to hear the
two-tone tune of the chiffchaff – the archangel of spring’s heralds. The
skylarks, in fine voice this year near our house, elaborate the
soundtrack of spring with a mellifluous melody that seems so happy it
might burst their own hearts. A week ago my own heart was bursting to
see that first, solitary swallow of the year, sweeping from the sea on
warm, southerly wind. They say a single swallow does not a summer make,
yet it certainly made my day, made me feel more at home somehow. Reading
a book at home, <em>Welsh Folktales</em> by Peter Stevenson, I find a
flighty fable accredited to Iolo Morganwg… One springing morning a
skylark rose up on her ladder of song above a little orchard where an
old pig was tied to a tree. The boar looked up with small, squinting
eyes to grunt loudly at the frivolous bird: “<em>Why do you fly so high and sing so long when no-one down here give a straw for your song?</em>” The lark replied: “<em>I sing because it’s spring and the sun is shining, and because I’m not tethered to a tree.</em>”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m
lost in time. Like all of us, I don’t know when this time will end. But
I navigate naturally through each day, I look at the moon rather than
the month and stop to sense each subtle shift in the season. And I’m
caught by the moment: between swallows and swifts, after primroses and
just before bluebells. Like a lark I’m happy it’s springtime and that,
for now, I’m not tethered to anything as straight as time.</span><br />
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Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-55998487552866429332018-10-10T02:49:00.002-07:002018-10-10T02:51:12.621-07:00Autumn Holloway<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An old sycamore is singing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From its precarious perch on the edge of the bank</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Catching the fleeting voice of the wind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And bringing it down into the roots of the holloway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yellow-green field maple leaves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Filter the slanting sunshine from above</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Creating a cathedral of stained-glass light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sanctified by terce-time birdsong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The fields beyond are drenched with dew </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But here, beneath my feet, the fallen foliage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is dry and drained of summer's sap </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Weaving a tapestry of faded colour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sitting on a stile: I smile </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looking back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At a </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">morning's </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">moment's magic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the shifting spell of the seasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">scything the patch of pasture</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">neatly hemmed by threads of hedges</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">flourishing with flowers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">a summer's afternoon ago, now</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">thickly thatched with blackberries</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">although the rain and wind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">and frugal foragers, perhaps, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">have pecked and picked the best</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">already</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">as I look again</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">across my field of view</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the swallows have disappeared -</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">not yet departed - </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">but flown a little further </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">towards the sea and the south,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">beyond my compass</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A morning walk;
along an old, familiar route on a brand new summer’s day. The way was
flanked with fluttering wings - speckled woods spiralling through the holloway,
merry mobs of meadow browns fussing over the verges and marbled whites dancing
over bracken-top ballrooms. Here and there a basking gatekeeper guards the gaps
between fields.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">After an hour or
so I stopped to sip and savour a flask-cup of coffee, finding shade in the
westerly lee of hawthorn hedge. There I’m captured by another butterfly. In a
buzzing blur of orange a large skipper lands on an extended stem of grass just
a few inches from where I’m sitting. I smile. They’re such inherently happy
creatures - skippy by nature. Maintaining my stillness I watch as it curls the
tip of its teddy-bear abdomen and gently dabs the inner curve of the leaf-blade
with a single white dot - an egg. I’m filled with pleasure at the privilege of
seeing such a thing, unlooked for and unexpected. What’s more, there’s
mercurial magic in that image-ful moment: a glimpse of the wistful mystery of
summer. For me, more than any other, summer is the season that resonates with
its own poignant reason: a febrile focal point of peak passion.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Spring is all
about beginnings. We eagerly search for signs of incipience with no thought of
its middle or end - it simply swells and blossoms into early summer. At
the other end of the seasonal spectrum autumn is open ended, more process than
period, with its slow and mellow fading. Winter, of course, holds its own sense of
stasis, when the earth is dark, cold and still. But despite the low-point
of light the experience of winter is </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">more fluid, </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">mediated by the whims of weather that
conspire, now and then, to cast a winter’s spell.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In contrast to
these, summer’s time-induced tenderness can feel almost painful. In the
build-up before mid-summer there’s a flurry and fluster, a sense that we need
to be ready and in the right place, physically and mentally, to take advantage
of the apogee that’s been accumulating and anticipated for weeks. Afterwards,
there’s a sense of sadness, that summer's zenith has slipped through our fingers
before we ever had chance to hold it. One moment there’s greenery and flowers,
the next its seed-heads and browning. From then on it seems like a gaping chasm
of time, spanning over a year, before we tread once more the hopeful slopes of summer’s summit.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Writer and
storyteller Hugh Lupton speaks of two types of time: time that travels in
straight lines and time that moves in circles. I like the imagery and its
heuristic possibilities. It suggests a refraction of time, bending around us in
a double-helix so that our inevitable forward trajectory is accompanied by
the reassuring repetition of the seasons. It allows us somehow to feel rooted
in movement. Each year I seem to notice something new about each recurring
season that I haven’t perceived before; a distinctive expression of colour, or
texture or sound. Such seasonal experiences annually accrete around us
like growth rings of a tree - itself is a powerful, natural symbol of straight
and circular time combined.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For us, as
sentient seasonal beings, what better way to bring those two types of time
together than through annual celebrations at important positions around the
calendar? In doing so we share our sense of seasonality with others, and
intentionally mark the intersections of people, place and points in time. In my
own place, within my own community, I’ve regularly celebrated the merriness of
May by raising a glass of ale to the rising sun from the top of a hill, at
Apple Day by gathering together as we gather in the harvest and feast from the
fat of the land and in deepest winter by wassailing the trees with mulled cider
and sitting around the fire, dispelling the darkness with story and song.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But this is the
first year I’ve had opportunity to meaningfully mark the peak of summer. I was
invited, along with a few musicians, to help organise and facilitate a
celebration – a brand-new ancient ceremony – to mark two times: the
final completion of a new stone sculpture and the summer solstice sunrise, to
which the sculpture was intentionally aligned. I arrived with two friends the evening before,
better than setting an early morning alarm at home and an opportunity to see both sunset and sunrise at summer solstice. We were lucky with the weather - clear enough to see the
slowly sinking sun on the Western horizon, but enough cloud to then scatter the
sky with iridescent colours of crimson and vermillion. We stood and stared in
awe for an hour or more, a dram of whisky moistening our mouths and minds. As the
gloaming grew around us the air was strained with strange sounds. From the stand
of trees below nightjars began calling – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">churring</i> – in a
continuous whirring and warbling; unearthly and unnerving but as much a
blessing on the occasion as the blushes of the sunset. I laid out a mat and </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">sleeping bag </span>besides
the stones but soon the weaselly wind moved to the north and sneaked its way alongside me. I didn’t sleep, surrounded by nightjars and night breezes, and
illuminated by a week-old half-moon bright enough to bridge the night between
sunset and sunrise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Before sunrise a
pale easterly light was washed across the hilltop </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">heath</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">; I
wondered if we’d somehow missed the moment. But it was still only 4am, an hour before
daybreak. The pre-dawning morning was suddenly punctuated with a thud of car door,
and then more. People slowly arrived, shuffling around the stones in shadowy
silence. We began with a tale of the dark, the Wild Hunt chasing the dawn in
the form of a hare. Then merry music led us in procession to dance three times
around the stones, clockwise with the sun. Together in a circle we declaimed
words in praise of summer, invoking our peak passions both personal and
communal. Someone shouted their affection for swifts, prized symbols of summer,
and in response a drift of them swooped down from hidden heights and screamed a
salutation. We pointed and smiled at such magic made manifest from the sky.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">At the expected
moment of dawn, pre-ordained but not presumed, the sun kept its appointment
and crowned the crest of the hill with gold. Its bright beams poured through
the stone-framed window created in its honour. Gasps of delight from all around
were mingled with the sound of three gongs, in a shimmering melody of
beaten-metal. To my side the sculptural creators, astronomer and stonemason,
looked at each other anxiously then fist-punched the air. We finished with a
tune and a tale. I told an Estonian myth, from the north lands where winter
is night and summer is light. It tells of the sky god once calling two humans,
a young man called Dusk and a young woman called Dawn, to become his celestial
assistants in exchange for everlasting youth. Each evening Dusk cradles the sun
in a blanket of night, each morning Dawn rekindles its flames and send it soaring into the sky. Eventually those
two keepers of the sun fell in love, and begged the sky god to allow them to be
together. To fulfil their desires he proposed a choice: either become mortal
once more and live together, day and night, but only for the span of human
life; or remain immortal in the heavens and come together, fully and freely,
for just one night of the year – on summer’s solstice. They chose the latter, and in gratitude the sky god made summer solstice -
</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">when dawn and dusk are
closest, </span></span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">the time of their peak passion </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></span>-</span> to be perfect as possible: the stars twinkle
gently, the air is warm and soft, and the sweet scent of flowers rises up from
the earth as they walk together across the sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">On my own morning
walk there’s the image of an egg-laying butterfly. It holds me spell-bound and
still, until eventually I can appreciate and enjoy the </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">sweetness </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> of summer without holding too tight or fear its fading by looking too
closely. Like the skipper I’m flying forward through the year, straight through and beyond peak passion, but the egg of next year’s summer is already laid
and waiting to hatch, in its own circle of time.</span><br />
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Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-1825999085199749122018-03-09T03:58:00.002-08:002018-03-09T03:58:18.904-08:00Bird Words #1Starting a new <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BirdWords?src=hash"><s>#</s><b>BirdWords</b></a> series from my bimbling bird-watching around my local patch, to help remember different species id. Loosely based on Japanese Tanka poetry of five lines. Here's #1:<br />
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Dunnock<br />
Sparrow-speckled back<br />
Breast of gun-metal grey<br />
A sweetly squeaking trolley<br />
Wheeling away into the woods<br />
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Image:<a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="19255050" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/Natures_Voice"><s> @</s><b>Natures_Voice</b></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">round black eyes like berries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">peering at me impassively</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">as I stand and stare back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It blinks its grey lids</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">as I watch, and blinks again,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">then suddenly shifts its weight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">turning its back on me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">over a grey feathered shoulder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I take a step backwards -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">it hops a little forwards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">keeping me close range</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">as if I am a little tasty morsel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">instead of a clumsy lumbering man;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">perhaps I am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And it’s a joy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">a sweet stilling of time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">to be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">beheld </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">by a bird.</span></div>
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Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-52178793602645423952018-01-18T02:10:00.001-08:002018-01-18T02:11:49.161-08:00Waes Hael<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><i>A</i></b>fter the clutter
of Christmas is cleared away</span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And shops
are shorn of lurid displays, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, outside,
there’s a stirring in the trees</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">As merry
music leads </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Us along familiar
ways</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Into the old
orchard, ablaze</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">With flickering
torchlight</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And a brazier
of fire, burning bright.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Pots and
pans are clanged</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And shotguns
banged:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Decluttering
the trees of lingering malignants;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Replacing
them with little lighted lanterns</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And pieces
of dunked and drunken toast</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">For Robin,
the good-fellow, to make the most</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">As we raise
our voices in joyful boasts:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Ere’s to thee - Old Apple Tree!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">With wreaths
of evergreen leaves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">A Wassail
King and Queen are crowned</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And the Loving
Cup is passed around</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Overflowing
with hot mulled cider</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Bringing
warmth and cheer inside as</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">We, outdoors,
in the darkness of night</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And the frosty
grip of winter’s might,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Stand
together to treasure and appease</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">The cold and
naked apples trees</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And wish good
health to them:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">In root and fruit,
in branch and stem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And so enjoining
one another</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">To make
merry in Midwinter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And celebrating
the bond between bark and skin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">We hope, once
more, the trees will bring -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">In autumn
after summer after spring -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">(As much as we
give to them in our Wassailing)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">So then,
again, at Apple-Time we may all share</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">The wealth of
the orchard: many an apple & many a pear!</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4bnfg-0-0"><span data-text="true">Night's shadows still hug the holloway</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="426le-0-0"><span data-text="true">As a chorus robins and wrens</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a6enp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Greet the dawning grey light.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="abu71-0-0"><span data-text="true">A clattering of jackdaws</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="13jpb-0-0"><span data-text="true">A shattering of pigeons' wings</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="t0fq-0-0"><span data-text="true">A sneeze and yawn from a battered tent</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6rsv0-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the copse of tangled trees.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1tlnp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Molehill milestones mark the muddy track</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7gsbu-0-0"><span data-text="true">As I climb the hill, until sea is seen,</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d7hhm-0-0"><span data-text="true">Standing on a cairn of stones</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d4s7c-0-0"><span data-text="true">At Midwinter's summit.</span></span></div>
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Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-49842054539396298092017-10-30T10:11:00.003-07:002017-10-30T10:28:41.094-07:00<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A little egret<br /> Alifts from the riverside<br /> Like an ancestral apparition <br /> Bound by its being to the ever-flow of water<br /> But released by the freedom of the moment<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> To rise and ride the wind -<br /> Haunting the liminal land on wide, white wings.</span></span>Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-47165832895626761452017-09-13T02:32:00.001-07:002017-09-13T02:32:27.922-07:00Last Swallow (11 September)Solitary swallow<br /> Soaring and swooping<br /> In and out of September's skyWild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-6206758144362238212017-08-30T13:47:00.001-07:002017-08-30T14:00:13.898-07:00Orchard-drunkShadowy shade savoured<br />
Walking through the old orchard<br />
As fermenting fallen fruit <br />
Infuses the warm, humid air<br />
With sweet cidery smellsWild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-51273899575138056572017-03-28T04:46:00.002-07:002017-03-30T02:38:02.908-07:00The Colpexies of Colmers Hill<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With its iconical conical<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";"> </span>shape and crown
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olden times,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a <span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">favoured</span> place for festivities of the faerie
folk:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Little People, The Good Neighbours, The
Shining Ones, The Others…</span><br />
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in their caps,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But rarely seen as they make merry on <span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">hallowed </span>hilltops</span></div>
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and Midsummer’s Eve,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When God-fearing folk believe it’s wiser and
safer to stay inside,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With salt sprinkled on the doorway, for fear
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Involuntarily taken on a dangerous dance; <span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">a</span> dalliance
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And of all the <span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">varied </span>array of faerie folk the
most secretive and shy, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hardly ever caught by human eye, are the Colpexies
- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Digging and picking in the sandstone sides of
Dorset’s hidden holloways.</span></div>
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strange symbols and stone-carved runes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">perchance </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">you’<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">v</span>e</span> found one of their dislocated digits - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Colpexies' <span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">F</span>ingers - which <span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">those </span>of rational, reductive minds call Belemnites.</span></div>
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fingers – wealth and health and lustrous long life;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But the Colpexies are tricksy, treacherous folk,
not to be taken lightly or joked about,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And to interfere with their habitations is to
invite trouble into your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own</i> home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So be warned and beware: lest you find yourself
bewitched<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";"> and</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";"> </span>betwixt...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">...<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">t</span></span>his world and the Others' world!</span></div>
Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-77285910479430520972017-03-21T04:31:00.000-07:002017-03-21T15:36:12.028-07:00Taking myself for a walk<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I never see
another walker</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I go
for a walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Except a
walker with a dog -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A dog taking
a walker for a walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But I don’t
need a dog </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I go
for a walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I can walk
all by myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Without a
four-legged friend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Who lives in
my house </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To take me out<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";"> f</span>or a walk </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I</span>, like a
dog, need to walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Every day,
because if I stay</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In my house
without going out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I feel sad
and start acting badly </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So I do <span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">daily</span> take myself for a walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Perhaps I am <span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">a </span>dog?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">dog </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and
a </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">walker <span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">rolled into</span></span> one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or perhaps I
just don’t need one,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A dog, <span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">t</span>o go for a walk </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif";">But </span>like a
dog on a walk</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I go
for a walk I don’t walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I bound
along, like a happy song,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Until
suddenly I stop</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In my tracks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the
middle of the path</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For no
reason, other than to listen</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or to stare at
something</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That catches
my eye or reaches my ear</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or better
still I sniff the air</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And wonder
what it is</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Until I’ve
forgotten why it is </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That I’m
still standing there</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And so once
more I walk on,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on my walk</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My inner dog
taking his walker out for a walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And I when I go for a walk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I never
meet another walker</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Except a
walker with a dog…</span></div>
Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-67711168778277035712017-03-14T10:33:00.001-07:002017-03-21T04:47:27.358-07:00For JudeA poem for a departed friend, whom I didn't know that well, but whose
positive actions and attitudes were interlaced within the place where
we shared a home:<br />
<br />
Rambling around the ancient hill<br />
In the thickness of the mist<br />
Turned into tears by the dripping of the trees<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> I stumble across a patch of pale primroses<br /> That suddenly seem to glow: <br /> The brightness of their immanence <br /> Marking the impermanence of the seasons<br /> And I am glad to have see them; there and then.</span><br />
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Sing spring sprung!Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684566324097112632.post-71524033382790592042017-01-30T07:39:00.001-08:002017-01-30T08:03:24.090-08:00Late January Early MorningAfter a seasonal cold snap<br /> It's mild and moist again<br /> Now in the old woods: new shoots<br /> Tiny, tender and tentative<br /> Amongst a morass of mulched detritus<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Fox-musk scent lingers<br /> Along dank, dripping banks<br /> Deep in the hidden holloway<br /> A little dribble of white<br /> From russet-brown bottom<br /> As pertly perched wren<br /> Promptly evacuates...</span>Wild Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10851873008229162264noreply@blogger.com0