Nina
Waiting for storms to pass
Waiting for storms to pass
Standing under maples
Waiting for hard rain to pass
Watching iron black
Towered thunder clouds
Rise over the mountain
I remembered you
And wondered
At the reason
The memory
Was brought back
It was the day you decided
You were leaving
You told me
This place is not for me
It’s not for you either
You told me
Don’t worry
You’ll find
Your own way
That was the last
I saw of you
But the memory of your
Strength of conviction
Has been a source
Of great strength
Doing what’s right
Is all that matters
I think of your courage
A woman who knew
What was wrong
What was right
And I cherish
The memory
Of you then
The briefness
Of our friendship.
RAC
. sunday morning.
sunday morning is often quiet here early .the radio playing. did you know they play music alongside bird song. a special moment. we sit quiet and listen. you see i think the swallow…
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Sheila Jacob
Father i.m. Father Jacques Hamel 1930-2016 Such a small throat, wafer-frail above folds of a white linen alb almost too heavy for bird-light bones. Such an old man, not seeking death but sensing it…
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That Generation of men
That generation of men
How long did I work with abused people
Thirty nine years maybe forty
But always that resistance and absolute denial
By that generation of men
The so called decision makers
Thirty eight years trying
To get through a wall
Of concrete doors
Of silence, of ridicule,
It seems ridiculous to me now
The ends they’d go to
To avoid listening
I’d get phone calls
From experts in the States
My boss shut his door
Stopped answering his phone
The message on his door
I’m out in a meeting
Outside my window
I could see his car
That generation of men
Men who thought abused children
Asked for it in some way
Or that the abusers were right
It didn’t do the child serious harm
After all they’re still alive,
They’re still breathing
What’re they complaining about
Forty years of listening
Forty years of fighting
That generation of men
And now I worry
Nothings really changed
Another generation of men
Are not talking about what they really think
Two children are murdered each week
One woman murdered a fortnight
The majority by men’s doing
These are things men need to sort out
Meanwhile men are silent
Sitting on their hands
Talking about sport
As if it’s the be-all of this life
This generation of men.
RAC
River of Eels
time slips through my bones like a river of eels taking bits of me scavenging scraps of abandoned identity churned with a mass of electrified flesh rushing madly in need of the sea the cold comfort…
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Victor Jarra lest we forget
28 September 1932 – 15 September 1973
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, its indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
Elie Wiesel
THE GUNDESTRUP GHOSTS – Hidden Images in the Gundestrup Cauldron
Then there are ghosts and ghosts!
Discovered in a peat bog near the village of Gundestrup in Denmark in 1891, the Gundestrup Cauldron is the largest and finest example of Iron Age European silverwork (diameter: 69 cm (27 in); height: 42 cm (17 in.). Despite being discovered inDenmark, the workmanship and iconography on the cauldron indicate that it originated on the Balkans, either among the Thraco-Celtic (Scordisci) or possibly Celto-Scythian (Bastarnae) tribes, although the exact date and location of production is still uncertain.
The Gundestrup Cauldron
Antlered deity on Plate A of the Gundestrup cauldron, identified with the Celtic God Cernunnos, holding a ram-horned serpent and torc.
https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2015/07/04/cernunnos-and-the-ram-headed-serpent/
Celtic carnyx players depicted on Plate E of the Cauldron
https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/the-boar-headed-carnyx/
X-radiograph of inner plate C 6575 showing details of traces from working tools.
The ‘Gundestrup Ghosts’
While extensive academic attention has been paid to the cauldron’s iconography and origin over the past century…
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CERNUNNOS AND THE RAM-HEADED SERPENT
In contrast to other creatures, depictions of the ram in Celtic art are comparatively rare. For example, on fibulae with zoomorphic decoration less than 2% feature the ram, and in the vast majority of cases where the animal is represented it is most often the head alone, naturalistic or schematically, which is portrayed (see: Cluytens M. (2009) Réflexions sur la symbolique du bélier chez les Celtes protohistoriques à travers les représentations figurées, Lunula. Archaeologia protohistorica 17, 201-206).
Fibula from the burial of a Celtic woman at Orainville (Aisne), France (bronze/coral) decorated with ram head motif (300-275 BC)
Zoomorphic/ram head attachment from a Celtic (Scordisci) firepot from Boznik (Pernik region), Bulgaria (late 2nd / early 1st century BC)
https://www.academia.edu/5046182/Zoomorphic_Cult_Firepots
Danubian kantharos with ram head handles from the burial of a Celtic woman at Csobaj, (Kom. Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén), Hungary
(3rd c. BC)
https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/the-archaeology-of-heads/
The head of the…
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