Dreamwood ~ Adrienne Rich In the old, scratched, cheap wood of the typing stand there is a landscape, veined, which only a child can see or the child’s older self, a poet, a woman dreaming when she should be typing the last report of the day. If this were a map, she thinks, a map […]
Draw for March 31, 2017 Active Influence: Skadi/Justice Rune: Os/God Voice and Dagaz/Breakthrough Hidden Influence: Billing/King of Coins Big Things are happening, and you are part of them. You can’t control everything, but you must do your part diligently and promptly. You have what you need to do what you must, even if you feel […]
A Woman Speaks ~ Audre Lorde Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor untouched by blood unrelenting as the curse of love permanent as my errors or my pride I do not mix love with pity […]
Draw for March 30, 2017 Active Influence: Nidhogg/Strength Rune: Ear/Grave (reversed) Hidden Influence: Fenja & Menja/Two of Coins The only thing holding you back is your insistence on clinging to what is no longer yours, whether asset or liability. You have a lot to do, and you have the strength and resources to do it. […]
I chose today’s poem deliberately rather than randomly, as the last stanza ties in nicely with today’s draw. A Psalm of Life ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, […]
