Here on Earth living in physical bodies, we are growing, learning, evolving souls in the greatest of all schools. In this school are many classrooms… enough to offer the lessons needed by each soul. And there are many grades, accomodating the very youngest in experience, and all, up to the most advanced. The most advanced …
Author Archives: Ciel
The Cats Decline
The cats have run away to hide.They do not wish to go for a ride.Oh, no I won’t! the wise cat sings–Rides generally arrive at unpleasant thingslike trimming of claws and shots in the assand minor surgeries… Thanks, I’ll pass!The cats are crouching in unlikely placeswith wide opal eyes and resentful faces: Under the sofa they’d rather …
Tolkien Tribute w/ a nod to P. Jackson: DUET
Merry to Pippin You are a menace, Pippin Took,the way that mischief follows you,as impulse prompts the things you do–Sometimes you’re begging to be shook!Oh, Pippin, you are such a lad!You’re never meaning to be bad,You’re into every niche and nookwithout a thought of what comes nextand when it does, you’re so perplexed!You can’t not …
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The Great Puzzle
I’ve been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked at that age, specifically, how to reconcile God with Science. I was raised in the household of a scientist and of a mystic, and both truths they offered made sense to me. I felt, even at …
Justice and Time
I was watching the CADFAEL series again, from PBS some years ago. CADFAEL is set in the times of the war between King Steven and Empress Maud over the succession to the English throne after the death of William the Conqueror. Cadfael, played by Derek Jacobi, is a brother in the abbey of Shrewsbury who …
Just Sayin’…
The colonial powers paved the surface and built on shallow foundations, trying to negate and overcome the Earth. They have plowed down a few inches, they have shaved off the forests, they have killed off what they found troublesome and inconvenient. They believed they needed nothing and no one but themselves to prosper, never looking …
Aotearoa
SilverThe ferns, of coursebut too the skythe clouds and air betweenSun on misty rains:Silver gracedwith rainbows…silver-bright the sun,the sharp-cut shadesedges of treesagainst the blue, grey, white…Silver the starsSouthern Cross and Milky Wayon deepest night…Silverthe moon in all its phasesdashing across the waters,inviting path…Silver the watersday or night–moving, gleaming, glittering…Black swans flyingover the satin moireSilver reflecting …
Tolkien Tribute: Suddenly, You
In the shadowof the forestlost,and hiding,runningfrom the echoinganguish.chaosclashingof armies embattledbesieging my mind…suddenly–sunderedall of it…! O Nightingale!You–singing,dancing in the gladein gladnessdraw mefrom war’s clamour,it’s darknessit’s despair…The whole of my worldthey werebut suddenly–Youare there! Dancing like down,upon the air,upon the melodyof the Nightingale,in moonlight–casting shadow out,making roomin my heartto hold the wonderthe mysterythe magicof your music,of your danceandYou.All …
Self Portrait: Inside Out
I am not who you seewalking about smiling or not… This surface is not who I amIt is barely mineat all in the mirror…You do not know meif you never ask:whatever you surmise,you cannot see the essencewithout the deepestclearest looking…I dance, I laugh, I singand joy is in my every line and move! Lithe and …
Hunter’s Moon
a paleolithic winter’s tale Wind rises, the sun is pale;Leaves go brilliant and finally pall;Wise creatures burrow deepseeking the peace and safety of sleepand the snow begins to fall… The People see the summer failand gather closer to the fire;Meat is smoked against the dayswhen going to hunt no longer pays:The blue smoke rises ever …
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