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Posted on August 1, 2020
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Wishing you all a wonderful first harvest weekend, whether you celebrate Lúnasa, Lammas or Yorkshire Day! All three have meaning for me, but Lúnasa is the festival I celebrate most. Click the link for a poem named for Samildánach, one of Lugh’s epithets. https://mabhsavage.com/2018/08/01/samildanach/
Category: Nature, pagan, poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: 1st August, August, lammas, Lúnasa, Lugh, lughnasadh, pagan, pagan festivals, poetry, samildanach, yorkshire day
Posted on July 4, 2020
by mabhsavage
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I’ve spent a lot of time over the past 48 hours being super anxious about lockdown easing. Relaxing the lockdown restrictions is great for those businesses that need to get going again and people’s livelihoods, and more importantly people’s mental health which will be… Continue Reading “Super Saturday”
Category: childhood, parenting, society, Uncategorized, writingTags: Coronavirus, covid-19, flowers, fruit, health, kids, lockdown, lockdown easing, mental health, nature, nature photography, outdoors, parenting, photography, quarantine, super Saturday, writing
Posted on May 12, 2020
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This new book from various Moon Books authors (including me!) looks at practical, spiritual and psychological ways to support yourself and others when going through tough times- like the current crisis. Out this Friday, the 15th May, just 99p on Amazon UK and free… Continue Reading “Weathering the Storm”
Category: health, mental health, pagan, Uncategorized, writingTags: books, Coronavirus, covid-19, help in a crisis, moon books, pagan, pagan books, psychology, self care, self help, self love, spirituality, support, weathering the storm, writing
Posted on May 1, 2020
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Category: pagan, seasons, society, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: bealtaine, bealteane, beltaine, Beltane, folklore, folklore thursday, may, May Day, May eve, pagan, pagan festivals, paganism
Posted on April 30, 2020
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I got behind… again I got distracted… again There was other stuff going on… again Like last year When I didn’t finish And the year before When I barely finished So why This year of all years When there is more reason than ever… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day 22: NaPoWriMo Blues”
Category: health, mental health, poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: 2020, Coronavirus, covid-19, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, inspiration, lockdown, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, quarantine, writer’s block, writing
Posted on April 30, 2020
by mabhsavage
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I celebrate Beltane from sunset tonight, May eve, throughout tomorrow- and even into the weekend at times. It’s a festival of fire, of creativity, of passion and of hope for the coming summer. Unable to attend festivals or gather with friends, there are still… Continue Reading “Beltane at Home”
Category: pagan, society, Uncategorized, writingTags: beltaine, Beltane, Coronavirus, covid-19, festivals from home, lockdown, may, May Day, May eve, pagan, pagan festivals, quarantine
Posted on April 19, 2020
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I had an idea For words In the middle of the night In vino veritas Perhaps But definitely In vino no memoriae. (For the love of cheese someone clean up my Latin! Please!)
Category: poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: drinking, drunk, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, memory, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, national poetry month, National Poetry Writing Month, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, wine
Posted on April 19, 2020
by mabhsavage
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Following the NaPoWriMo prompt to write a poem inspired by music. I wish I could write a poem Like Williams wrote The Lark Ascending Those trills and furls of sheer beauty Capturing the essence of song The spring morn, The warmth of the sun… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day Fifteen: Lark Transmogrified”
Category: Music, poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: birds, birdsong, classical music, George Meredith, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, Lark Ascending, music, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, National Poetry Writing Month, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, Ralph Vaughan Williams, romantic music, The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams
Posted on April 18, 2020
by mabhsavage
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Several times a day I make my husband groan Now that one’s not a euphemism, though it could be, I own… But he despairs of my wit, or my attempt at it The egg-cessive ingredients in the omelette Working it out with a pencil… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day Fourteen: A Pun, My Soul”
Category: poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: comedy, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, humor, humour, marriage, marridl ife, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, National Poetry Writing Month, plays on words, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poetry month, poets, puns, wordplay
Posted on April 18, 2020
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Only in dreams do I feel The success of nostalgia The culmination of that homesickness For that place I’ve never been At least not in this life Or with this body Or maybe with this soul I don’t pretend to know How it all… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day Thirteen: Only in Dreams”
Category: mental health, pagan, poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: dreams, fernweh, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, homesickness, isolation, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, national poetry month, National Poetry Writing Month, nostalgia, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, self isolating, self-isolation, social distancing, wanderlust
