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Half Moon and the Holly King

Half bitten moon cries a waning scream Her severed pieces are brought by the stream to the cavernous lair of the holly king who grinds his axe on a sharpening stone preparing his block for the gore of...

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Sylph

Sylph Winged one of the eastern gate hangs over Brigantia like an angel of the north rolling off my cornea in fathomless lineaments, sinews strung in touchless cloud defying horizons down. No eye can...

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May Poems

Lorna Smithers is a poet and philosophy postgraduate living in Penwortham in Lancashire. She writes poetry inspired by the Bardic Tradition about nature, local history and British mythology and...

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June Poem

 Lorna Smithers is a poet and philosophy postgraduate living in Penwortham in Lancashire. She writes poetry inspired by the Bardic Tradition about nature, local history and British mythology and...

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July poem

Poetry for July by Lorna Smithers   Solstice Sun Down from Preston Bus Station   Old sun sinks into the bowels of the city which holds me in its windows, in panes of light golden as mead.   Dusk...

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August poem

by Lorna Smithers         Grasshopper Party I stepped through a puddle one day and lost a Wellington boot at a giant green grasshopper party. They thought it was such a hoot!   I joined their ring with...

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September poetry

By Lorna Smithers               Reaping Moon Gathering poetry from fading light and seeds from meadow flowers, cutting down swathes, curved edges of the scythes sweeping and all the grasses falling....

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Fairy Procession

by Lorna Smithers Recently, Lorna blogged for Moon Books about fairy folklore and fairy funerals. This poem is on the same theme… Fairy Procession   Hear, oh, hear The passing bell, fear The midnight...

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Samhain poetry – Presence

By Lorna Smithers   Presence For the Ancestors of this Land   You are birch on tundra tossed by the north wind. You are elk drowned agonised in a shallow pool. You are auroch, wild horse, antlered stag...

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Winter King

By Lorna Smithers you take me back to what is raw, glacial plains of horror, the obnoxious beauty of it all   to beyond the ice age when millennia ago we met when the universe drew breath,   when the...

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