Posted on February 1, 2019
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Imbolc is the Celtic festival of winter’s end, the start of spring, and is celebrated on the first or second of February. Spring isn’t here yet, but we’ve made it to halfway between winter solstice and the equinox. Lambs are on their way, and…
Category: Nature, pagan, seasons, society, Uncategorized, writingTags: Celtic, Imbolc, magic, nature, outdoors, pagan, photography, seasons, spiders, spiderwebs, spring, wheel of the year, winter, writing
Posted on December 16, 2018
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The boy pulls my arm Look at this bubble! He cries, and sighs In delight. It sits, unharmed, on the rainy tarmac Wet and round and glossy A perfect hemisphere A ghostly fried egg imitator A final resting place With no predicted pop. It…
Category: childhood, mental health, poetry, society, Uncategorized, writingTags: bubbles, celebrations, childhood, christmas, fairs, festivals, loneliness, outdoors, parenting, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, writing
Posted on December 1, 2018
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This poem was written for Sue Dudley, one of the winners of a competition during the Pagan Federation Beltane Online Festival. Sue was happy for me to share the poem that she inspired. I just never got around to it until now! I am…
Category: Nature, pagan, poetry, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: Beltane, competition, nature, online festival, outdoors, pagan, pagan federation, paganism, poetry, Wicca
Posted on October 21, 2018
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This is the kind of stuff you get if you sign up to be a patron of mine via Patreon.
Category: pagan, poetry, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: autumn, haiku, Leeds, moon, night, outdoors, photography, poetry, post hill, waxing gibbous, yorkshire
Posted on September 26, 2018
by mabhsavage
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I’m an autumn photography addict. I can’t help but get snap happy at this time of year. Colours leaps out at me from every angle and I want to capture it, hold it, cling onto it as if the fiery colours can actually warm…
Category: Nature, seasons, UncategorizedTags: autumn, colors, colours, fall, maple, nature, outdoors, photography, seasons, sun, trees, wednesday
Posted on June 28, 2018
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Summer walks with the children.
Category: childhood, Nature, UncategorizedTags: children, hiking, insects, ladybirds, nature, nature photography, outdoors, parenting, photography, seasons, summer, walking, wildlife
Posted on June 3, 2018
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When the sun doesn’t rise Majestically over The horizon But diffuses through cloud Like milk spilling Through ink When bird song sends Rain shivering Onto sodden paths When the moon has fizzled damply And stars have sighed and left Without saying goodbye When night…
Category: mental health, Nature, poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: dawn, day, Depression, mental health, morning, nature, night, outdoors, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, writing
