Tag: outdoors
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
Posted on May 14, 2018
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What a lovely weekend. I was honoured to be a part of the Online Beltane Music Festival, run by the Pagan Federation Disabilities Team, and really enjoyed seeing the other speakers and performers and interacting with the guests. For those who can’t get out…
Category: health, mental health, Music, Nature, pagan, society, Uncategorized, writingTags: disabilities, flowers, health, hiking, Leeds, mental health, monday blogs, nature, nature walk, Online Beltane Music Festival, outdoors, pagan, pagan federation, photography, post hill, pudsey, Robert Frost, spring, stream, summer, trees, walking, woods, writing, yorkshire
Posted on April 30, 2018
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I place my ear gently to the golden trumpet What secrets do you hold? I heard you whispering Just as you called to Persephone Am I distracted by your beauty Waiting for Hades to snatch me away Or am I the kidnapper Of my…
Category: mental health, Nature, poetry, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: anxiety, Depression, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2018, mental health, monday blogs, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2018, nature, outdoors, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, seasons, spirituality, spring, writing
Posted on April 30, 2018
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Swirling shroud A watery veil Like tired eyes; A crazed wail Cracks through the cloud Of foggy fear The eyes alive As shapes appear Looming, lunging Awkwardly Towards a shuddering Effigy Of something that used To be alive Now lost in the mist Struggling…
Category: health, mental health, observation, poetry, science fiction, society, writingTags: fantasy, fear, fog, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2018, horror, mist, monday blogs, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2018, outdoors, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, writing
Posted on April 30, 2018
by mabhsavage
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White treasure, petals bright Fall from high to small Hands and fingers, softly lands Adoration; springtime’s call.
Category: childhood, Nature, poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: gardening, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2018, mabh savage, monday blogs, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2018, nature, outdoors, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, seasons, spring, writing
Posted on April 28, 2018
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Waves of pleasure Olfactory lust Nasal pollination Vernal must Musky, heady Trance inducing Moving, ready, Rain drops sluicing Founts of heaven Sensation heavy Petrichor bomb Blossom so heady The smell of spring The scented air The cherry, apple Plum and pear Hawthorn coming Spikes…
Category: Nature, poetry, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: animals, blossom, flowers, gardening, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2018, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2018, nature, outdoors, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, seasons, spring, writing
Posted on April 28, 2018
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Waiting by the ocean Waiting by the shore Clouds are hanging, cloaking Sunlight, grey and raw. Beach lies glinting wetly Tide breaks like a sigh Pebbles crackling, crunching ‘Neath the slate tile sky Winkles, whelks and starfish Rays and sprays and gulls Bladderwrack and…
Category: Nature, observation, pagan, poetry, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: beach, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2018, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2018, nature, ocean, outdoors, pagan, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, sea, seaside, seasons, shore, spring, wildlife, writing, yorkshire
Posted on April 2, 2018
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I married The old stone wall Hidden behind The rhododendrons I found it When the snow Angel coloured lead Bowed the branches White flakes For my veil We borrowed The blue Sky, old And new And stood in front Of ourselves No witnesses.
Category: mental health, Nature, observation, poetry, writingTags: mental health, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2018, nature, outdoors, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, seasons, spring, weather, winter, writing
Posted on March 22, 2018
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Photo by me, Magpie through a rainy window, copyright 2017. One for Sorrow Two for Joy Three for a Girl Four for a Boy Five for Silver Six for Gold Seven for a Secret Ne’er to be told. Ok, most of us will know…
Category: childhood, education, mythology, Nature, poetry, society, Uncategorized, writingTags: animals, bird folklore, birds, corvids, country life, crow, crows, folklore, folklore thursday, magpie, magpies, nature, nursery rhymes, outdoors, poetry, superstition, writing
Posted on March 21, 2018
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For World Poetry Day today, I was obsessed with petrichor, the smell after the rain. Here are some of the poetic doodles I did today… Rain hits soil hits nose Knowing how it works doesn’t Make it not magic. Microbes multiply Each rain drop…
Category: Nature, poetry, seasons, writingTags: magic, mental health, nature, outdoors, patreon, petrichor, poem, Poet, poetry, prose, rain, seasons, spirituality, spring, weather, World Poetry Day, World Poetry Day 2018, writing
Posted on March 20, 2018
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It struck me today that for her entire life, there has been more darkness than light for my four-month-old. Born in November, weeks after the autumnal equinox, she has never known a time where the day outshone the night. My first born was almost…
Category: childhood, Nature, pagan, parenting, seasonsTags: astronomical equinox, babies, childhood, nature, outdoors, pagan, parenting, photography, seasons, spring, spring equinox, vernal equinox
