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ck of vision the wild world dances so we turn away to sink to meagre cooling gruel from yesterday share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in uncategorized tagged art consciousness goddess landscape photography metaphysics myth poetry the numinous time 2 comments cailleach says march 24 2024 by simonhlilly cailleach says this is what the cailleach says i have outlived you outlived the fighting men with their angry religions their need to keep memory to themselves i have forgotten the years forgotten even my names forgotten all the homes belonging to myself and my daughters i walk about best you if you challenge me i do not care that you live or die because you shall live and die myself my daughters somehow avoiding the slaughter avoiding the bombs avoiding the pious unholy glory of it all living here and there bringing luck bringing healing bringing you down to earth where are we now i am the smoky one the drift of smoke through your desolate city the ragged one the forgotten one who cares for the small things who teaches my daughters to bend and survive to make bread to give milk to circle around edges to pick up the pieces that remain the thieves will come the do good priests with their tall tales and the old men with their aches and jibes and the farmers with their complaints and the wind with its news of another war made by men and we shall remain ragged unnamed silent alone us and our daughters holding on to the world with our keening and our shroud clothes waiting to wash the bones clean waiting for goodness to be noticed the storm washes clean the slaughter stone moonlight on the darkening path share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in uncategorized tagged ancestors art continuity deep ecology goddess irish myth land poetry the cailleach time 3 comments uplands 5 upward soaring voice march 13 2024 by simonhlilly it flowers with the breath unfurls like a fern on the hill a cuckoo thing from somewhere else desiring to belong to be heard a voice rumbling with thunder a hiss of rain a roar of wave a keening of curlew nothing new though nothing new can ever be said before the flocks before the engines before the need to be somewhere else kite and buzzard wheeled high above here on their upward soaring voice the voice of moving warmed airs with vision open fixed on hope their hunger to remain insistent is the voice of a silent land holding those who care to stand still a while to hear from the ground and from beneath that it will rise up in its own time an uncurling a reaching thread a line of a melody a translucent tusk of language in the waters between field and wood in the moments as cloud shades and passes before certainty and after doubt a voice weighs and judges its own worth the verses shall all bow down bright browed prophecy is the love child of thought lost souls reborn eager to take flight again the root of my tongue is locked to a syllable of light a spark electric a leap between precipitous cliffs the long darkness of being the long darkness of non being a slim swaying golden chain rising up to eternity sinking to iron cold oceans it shall not cease til it ceases takes breath and speaks again the whispering of rock and stream and soil a mother s voice never lost share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in uncategorized tagged ancestors art bardic belonging continuance landscape landscape photography memory metaphysics mid wales mynyddoedd cambrian mountains poetry seasons taliesin the numinous time transcendence wales leave a comment uplands where it begins march 13 2024 by simonhlilly uplands 4 where it begins it is the mind is it not that weaves the stuttered fragments of our own experiencing that makes a seamless landscape of sense a fabricated clarity a story with fitting beginning middle end hammocked between void and void we taste our own landscapes in sweet and bitter just so we see the vast uplands there rising smooth and even up to heaven and do not feel the weight of mind do not strain against the uneven road do not catch breath at the long slopes the impossible tussocked miles the scouring winds the hungry rains we hold the truth of dream against the storm of tangled life the stories of the heroes the builders the survivors the steady solid ones not the wrecked bodies not the broken fingers not the minds locked fast in relentless ruthless faith not the worn down gap toothed corrugated rusted not the sightless windows not the tumbled walls not the lichen eaten names on tilted stone in ground once holy now deserted unhomed we long for the home over there in that heavenly blue gradient where peace must surely lie a rippling shroud of psalm and skylark it sinks down it all sinks down covered transformed in secret wrapped in lightless pools sucked dry by jealous peat this is where it begins where life becomes holy unnamed ready to flow down into the valleys green and sheep scattered this is where the mulch is ground into futures and futures return to the past and small things take control once and for all a gravel rain hits the windows in the valley the fire roars fed with a world s hungry breath we long still to be there in the uplands of clear certainty drained of doubt stripped clean by simple necessity to go on caressed by the wild that tests our bones the truth and freedom of powerlessness doubtful moments gathered sewn into a fine cloth cloth wrapped around the meaningless distance a rainbow view a bridge between body and void longing still always for both these uplands hard to encompass the heart of things emptiness sublime share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in uncategorized tagged ancestors art belonging consciousness dream history landscape mynyddoedd cambrian mountains photography poetry wales 3 comments uplands wellsprings of the sea march 12 2024 by simonhlilly uplands 3 wellsprings of the sea it all begins from here next to nothing with thoughts unrooted heady pulled out and upward to limitless blue distances it begins moving on the edge of the sedge grasses on the uncertain treacherous ground on the coolness of the wind that carries the spice of death deeply within its folds it begins on the copper whale backs of time arcing out of the valley floors carrying scorched stars and the ink of jet certainty into the unknown orbit of delivered time it begins with a line of trajectory an abandoning of nicety an allowance of ululating song and purposeless joy it begins with bones begins with nakedness begins with scattered remnants and piled stones it begins with remembering and forgetting and a pure tenacity to continue on it begins with a circulation of tears a saturated weight desiring heft waters moving together ribbons rippling out of sight peat brown as beer iron rich blood of earth it begins before sound begins before the names arrive and then the names carry it into our own belonging mapped out and pinned down steady here and here and here we dwelt we smiled we died always there hinting blue lost beyond reach always yearned after hazily recalled always one step further one crest away always more real than the real freer than freedom a weightless soul flight there with the buzzards with the kites there with the patient grumbling stone with the stumbling cloud the hissing mist a dream really of how it was of how it will be the uplands of heaven void and singing 40 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in uncategorized tagged art consciousness landscape landscape photography mynyddoedd cambrian mountains nature poetry rivers source time water leave a comment uplands the rules march 12 2024 by simonhlilly uplands 2 metres deep feet yards even seasons deep long years scoured strained laid down a weight of water a weight of tangled sedge grasses bones and stone splayed split on storm skies and roaming mist no one lives here long alone bullied and pushed we must lay life on life become entangled near invisible even to wheeling hawk even to stoat and marten tangle rooted stubborn as a song a narrow path wound between dry bluff and impossible wood the air here though pretends its own freedom not trapped by contour nor disguised as happy distance pharoah s prophet on drigarn ddu points an accusing finger the rules are here laid out clear on rippled stone no wavering no equivocation no interpretation a bleak love and a hungry wind garn ddu on fire at sunset the flashing shout of heather open mouthed sinewed dust they still shall congregate on the circle of the horizon they shall come no nearer but yet beat your heart tender the elders entranced caved up walled in rubble unroofed bitter beauty viewed from lascivious valleys a yearning there for here and here for there it is the paradox of the old religion heaped up to the silent sky the paradox of breath and flesh leave it be become something else this impossible gradient burned into the land s heart the desolation that gives us life share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in uncategorized tagged ancestors art cambrian mountains continuance deep ecology hills landscape poetry the dead time wales leave a comment uplands near eternal rules march 12 2024 by simonhlilly uplands 1 near eternal rules a perfect sky my tangled old hands forget themselves the valley dreams of the uplands and the uplands dream of heaven and sing it so easy it is to breathe its names in the luscious sap of hidden streams easy it is to forget though how to remain there discomforted by continents of swelling air the sweeping veils of rain the unlikelihood of easy paths and how the weighted body yearns for flight and how all thoughts always turn back to the curling dreaming bracken and sullen silent stone the harsh gods gravitate here born of flesh and born again with their horns and thunderheads mud spattered they hew and heft carve deeply the near eternal rules their language as guttural as singing as the falling crevices echo as the waters do melting away long millennia shaping bodies for breath and for joy the deep folds of a planet s shifting dream upon whose hunched shoulders all the little things thrive share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in uncategorized tagged ancestors art consciousness continuance landscape landscape photography mynyddoedd cambrian mountains mystery myth poetry powys time wales 1 comment with euron and eurwys march 11 2024 by simonhlilly i was with euron and eurwys in the resounding halls in the forest deep by the shattering hearth bright eyed exhilarated i was with euron and eurwys changing skins making roads casting seeds nesting fruiting gathering blossoms for the feasting in the garden dripping with rain cool browed at the spine tree watchng stars dance and divide in the scented earth neck deep learning from worms the peaceful transformation at the end of the day and at the dawn dumb speechless as rivers knowing all things at the grinding end of continents the whispering whimper of worlds at the evocation of gases at the mudra of fire weaving the plaid the poets know the language that ends suffering on the mountain top with clouds of mistrust with the prisons of the law moving through the doors of stone frost cracked marked with cold tongues moving through the doors of song weightless as whales that dream of deeper things cascading fountaining in the fort revolving perfectly formed chased and limned with ancestral universes with the primal poets the prime progenitors careless and frugal weighing out worth the hierarchies of sound tricksters of vision with the echoing bells the endless carillons with the deep trumpets and the drums of bone slow and pointed the needle words sew the rents repaired the new gods fashioned there in the mountain storm in the torrent in the slide of earth and the shattering of walls in the dark at midday in the throne on the cross forgiven and forgiving the sword of light in the shining hand there with aristotle and alexander with ptolemy and zeus dappled aphrodite deadly diana and the bear wrapped wanderers the naked jet black girls with the figures of light that flicker behind the veils with the dancing dragons the drunken souls of dreaming with the panoply of meaning with the caparisons of delight with the mysteries of silence mute before catastrophe gathering souls and names sailing away west into night east into dawn birdsong the bow of the moon giving us new birth it s a while since i posted here i find the working of this site increasingly tedious and opaque when it was once so straightforward that s progress for you i will be putting up more of last year s words to sort of catch up on myself at least partially see there is an autocorrect butting in now great share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in uncategorized leave a comment older posts email subscription enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address sign me up join 992 other subscribers archives archives select month march 2024 september 2023 august 2023 july 2023 january 2023 october 2022 september 2022 august 2022 july 2022 june 2022 may 2022 april 2022 march 2022 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