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Continue reading →: Light Years Haiku
For star lovers A light year is 9460730472580.8 km or 5.88 trillion miles. Light travels about one foot in a nanosecond and the term ‘light foot’ is used as an informal measure of time. Let’s be light of foot!
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Continue reading →: The Ship Inn
A tale told to me last week ‘I was down The Ship Inn the other week and this lass walked in like no other lass I’ve ever seen before for more like a cat was she with a head of brindle fur lightly touching her tracky top. ‘But being a…
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Continue reading →: The Old Woman And Her Nightgown
A traditional folktale There was once an old woman who lived in a time long before now when our grandparents were toddlers in their cots. One night whilst curled up in bed she heard banging and quarrelling going on inside her cottage which sent shivers down her spine, as well…
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Hawthorn Haiku
Continue reading →: Hawthorn HaikuFor tree lovers. The hawthorn tree has white blossom, red berries, and sharp thorns. It is a threshold tree rooting between this and the otherworld. Because of this it often wasn’t directly named by our ancestors for fear of enervating the fairfolk of the otherworld. It was instead referred to…
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Rock Praise Poem Part 3
Continue reading →: Rock Praise Poem Part 3Sedimentary sound. For rock lovers. Sedimentary rocks are formed when mineral sediments and organic matter cement together. The place of deposition of the geological detritus is relevant to the process of rock formation. Minerals are transported by wind, ice and water, the agents of denudation. Biological detritus is made up…
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Rock Praise Poem Part 2
Continue reading →: Rock Praise Poem Part 2For rock lovers. In my last post I explored igneous rocks. My favourite words are : amphiboles, feldspars, olivines, which are minerals present in igneous rocks. I also love obsidian, the word and the precious stone, it protects against negative energy, helps with grounding and the release of trauma. It…
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Rock Praise Poem Part 1
Continue reading →: Rock Praise Poem Part 1For rock lovers The word igneous comes from the Latin word igneus meaning ‘fiery’. Igneous rocks make up most of the top 9.9 miles of the earth’s crust and are created when lava or magma solidifies. When magma cools within the crust of the planet, intrusive igneous rocks are formed,…
I love art, folklore and poetry, the rhythm and sounds of storytelling’s enchantment. I live with an ear to nature and an eye to the sky.
I’ve a passion for writing, starlore and the natural world.
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Sara
I love words, rhymes, vowel sounds, curves and lines. I’ve spent a long time travelling the landscapes, seascapes, skyscapes of fairytales and folklore, looking for the magic key, word, charm, animal friends who’ll help me along.
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