Archive for the 'poetry' Category

A song without music

I can’t write a decent tune to save my life. I can sing, and I can arrange, but I can’t compose - it’s simply not something I have in my toolbox. Which is a shame, since some of my best poetry would (IMO) be enhanced with a musical setting. (more…)

“The Holy Longing” (more…)

[link to part 1]
The first underworld nights were hard for her,
A child of sunlight and perpetual summer. (more…)

The first time she came home (more…)

Father/Mythos

Father/Mythos
“Father of Gods and men” (more…)

Benediction

I recently came across this poem/benediction by David Miley, another UU Druid blogger; I am reposting it here with permission (thanks, David!). May it move you as much as it has moved me. (more…)

In reading over them, I’m getting a clue as to why I haven’t been inspired to post recently… (more…)

Practicing my poetry

I’ve always been the kind of poet to whom poems occasionally “happen” - an idea appears more or less full blown in my head, and usually only requires (or at least only receives) minor editing once it’s been written down.
In an effort to improve my technique (more…)

RIP Arthur C. Clarke

One of our best writers and most successful visionaries, and a man whose words had a powerful influence on my own childhood, has left us. (more…)

Poetry contest

The folks at Tapestry of Bronze, the website for a budding series of historical novels about characters of Greek myth, is holding a poetry competition: (more…)