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December 2011 Blog Posts (6)

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What-are-the-birds-doing-with-the-December-sky rap

Winter lounges, sodden and unused –
the sky is a washing-line of sorrows.
At night, the stream talks to itself;
becomes a dance floor for wintersong.
*
The wind does not care for my
predictions or predicaments; like everything,
it suspires, expires, rises again.
*
Day wakes, laden with blue.
I wonder how much words weigh,
and why the oak log splitting under the…
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Added by Roselle Angwin on December 31, 2011 at 20:00 — No Comments

Uncivilization?

Changing culture rather than undoing civilization.

As I thought about what to write for my honors thesis, trying to give expression to my horror at the unfolding drama of climate change and virulent denial, on top of unregenerate geopolitical maneuvering, by war, public deception and mayhem, by existing and future imperial powers, it occurred to me that the cultural change required for human survival is a fundamental shift from material or physical objectives to metaphysical…

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Added by Des Carne on December 31, 2011 at 14:22 — No Comments

winter solstice

First you need to shed all you know

or can name

then you need to step out of

your shoes, your shadow, your own

light, and your home. Strip

naked as the four winds

and forget being upright

unless you want to dance, and then

dance the stone row to the stone circle

and allow the sky to take your voice.

Watch for the barn owl

and Hecate at the crossroads

and prepare to hang from the World Tree

until you are sobered by silence…

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Added by Roselle Angwin on December 21, 2011 at 23:25 — 1 Comment

merrivale for the midwinter solstice

I walk the dancing circle with its little stumps of stones: widdershins, then sunwise, then widdershins again, and once more sunwise. I stand briefly at its heart, omphalos, the place where heaven and earth meet. 
My fingers are too cold to write. There's an icy northwesterly, the roads I've travelled potentially lethal in places. Bodmin's moors beyond our Dartmoor are visible, receding away towards the Atlantic. My back is giving me some…
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Added by Roselle Angwin on December 20, 2011 at 13:45 — No Comments

Haiku: Plastic Christmas Tree

'Dear Father Christmas,

I would like a Higgs boson

instead of a globe.'

Added by Clifford John Vodden on December 13, 2011 at 18:37 — No Comments

the fire stealers - a love story

I'm cross-posting this blog from the Social Reporting pilot on the Transition Network site, where for the last three months 10 of us having been blogging each day about our lives in Transition. This post was part of our week on People and Connections (our narratives focus on different topics from economics to inner transition to the arts).  It was…

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Added by Charlotte Du Cann on December 2, 2011 at 16:00 — No Comments

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