Elven World Healing Arts Community
Poetry
A group to share your own poetry and both modern and ancient poetry that you enjoy
Poems of Nature
Until Then
I've imagined the day, when we will walk on the shoreline together
It's nightfall, the in-between time
We're waiting to see the moon glinting on the navy ocean
Our feet crunch on the pebbles as we look out to the horizon
There's a slight breeze, the call of seabirds and anticipation
I'll know this moment when it arrives
I'll wait patiently until then
Julie
March 2024
Lace
We dipped our toes into the sea, cooling water, free
hermit crabs, wearing their shells like armour, it was we
A holiday for a lifetime, a perfect sonnet, a rhyme
welsh cakes with butter, sublime
Why did we love each other, we had talked about our mothers
the sea is our mother, our lover
We walked through the dunes, licked ice creams
laughed like lunes
The magnetic pull of the ocean inside, swept us up, ride
our souls must be one, it's our story, we shone upon each tide
Filming, seeing, hearing, feeling the small frothy fronds of the sea
licked our toes clean of the sand, our land, our free
Julie
March 2024
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A Meeting of Kin
Throughout the earth there came a bee of a sigh
eleven fairy maidens in the green they did lie
their fairy lovers flew low amongst the silvereen trees
the eleven elven folk they melded with ease
It was a meeting of the elvish fairy kin
because the dear earth was in such a spin
plants were frozen tight amongst the thaw
'twas a very chilling time in the fairy law
What would become of the earth bound folks
who tilled the land, who told their jokes
a time would come where each would kyne
they'd all come together to partake the rhyme
Many had found their definitive places
what made their heart define their races?
so many souls were come to see
the elven fairy folks upon bended knees
Trees wore their shrouds upon their green
weeping was commonplace, each light grew dim
out of woods the fairies came, to shine their soul beams
so that earth could sigh happy within her dreams
Julie
December 2022
edited September 2024
Art by Meredith Dillman ~ Queen of Wands
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Beyond the Sea
where the land lies beyond the sea
this magical journey taken deep within me
the sky is hard pewter, the colour of stone
nine enchanted trees guide me back home
the grass is rich purple, my soul it reflects
each tree is whitened with ageing respect
the pathway between shows me the way
eastern sky take me into today
by night my voice sings low and full
my journey through life is driven, not dull
images and visions bear forth the fruit
as my inner musician strums on his lute
choices I make, reflect from within
forever my dear one, let the living begin
so maybe life is the chord, connected by stars
where sunlight melts snow and quickly discards
each never moment that begins with a smile
one foot forward, twelve inches one mile
spiralling down into our earth rich and fine
remember my angel that life is a rhyme
~0~
Tai
April 2012
edited Nov 2013
Julie
Hands that Touch
In these bodies we experience our lifetime
bones a structure, nature lead and divine
Everything hangs on the bone
Our bodies make crystals in our eyes
crystalline joints as we age ... we turn to the next page
Everything hangs on the bone
Muscles, flesh, tendons, blood vessels enclosed in our clay forms
magical nerve pathways, lighting our electrical storms
Everything hangs on the bone
Our experiences on earth need a body to remember
the touch of a lover, cool raindrops, a flower, a fire ember
Everything hangs on the bone
When we pass we turn to dust...fertilising the earth
for the new generations to come.... a new birth
Everything hangs on bone
Julie
March 2025
Mar 10
Julie
There's a riddle in life
There's actions that are slight
uncovering the hieroglyphs we need to trace
There's action lived at a very slow pace
never a doubt we need not race
A proximity of faith in the grouping of souls
a teacher to teach, a mother to mother
always a sister and a soul shaped brother
Stones, held by the land
some would say unplanned
The stones come to you just like friends
held in the hand, stone cold and then warmed
stones battered and beaten by weathers stormed
Julie
March 2025
Mar 10
Julie
The earth welcomes the rain
Can we bring into consciousness
the sound of each individual raindrop
as it falls on the welcoming earth
how can we know
how the earth welcomes the rain
if we cannot hear her gratitude
listen now beloved for we will hear
the earth mother's sigh of eternal longing
as each raindrop lingers seductively
on her heavenly face
the eyes of mother earth can see us
through so many veils of tears
her ears search for our unique
rhythmic dance of love
how can we resist the longing
how can we deny our senses
as we call into being the oceanic ghosts
of all our unbirthed tomorrows
~o0o~
Julie
May 2011
image - from the internet - with gratitude
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I am always with You
Seeing faces in clouds
my heart is always open
I fly in misty blue spaces
with you, angel
as tides move me into
new beginnings
I dream of oceans
swept with salty breezes
drifting lazily on tranquil seas
I am always with you
Julie
April 2011
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Tide Upon Tide
Layer upon layer of sound
rebound
hearing selectively
retrospectively
rain dappled windows
sigh their weariness
sound
whirring traffic
background
oceans of boats
rocked by the sea
space stretched out
opened before
me
tide upon tide
birds call high
in trees
where raindrops
ride
upon rhythms of
seasons
springtimes of
reasons
why
beliefs hide inside
to be released
tide upon tide
feathers folded on
clouds
loaded with tears shed
outloud
ripped wide open fears
of mother's abandoned
child
wild to be
on mountains high
with snow capped pinnacles
that reach the sky
tide by tide
I ask
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Julie
March 2011
published
image - photobucket - with thanks
Apr 13