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From a Druid, writer and poet, Nimue Brown, the author of many wonderful books on nature-based spirituality, comes a review of my poetry collection. I am so pleased she enjoyed it.
I love how she framed them as Bardic songs, letters. So interesting, which makes it even more significant for me.
https://druidlife.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/soul-land-a-review/
She loved him so he could be free
To be adrift amidst her caring and
Anchored in her home roots
She loved him so he could become
The version only heavens know
To fly in spirit and deed
Come back to her devotion
She loved him so he can feel
The warmth only known through her
To laugh and act as if to see
The world she sees for him
Dear Guests and Friends,
Soul Land is available at a discount and author-signed paperback copies are available directly from me. Matching e-book price, which you can find on Amazon if you prefer ebooks.
I am very proud and excited to present my forthcoming book. It is a devotional to the land I have had a profound relationship with for many years.
I am working with a publisher on this project and the next stage is a cover design. Below is a blurb and advanced information for the collection. Follow me on here or my Instagram feed for more updates on this project and some others #raw_nature_spirit
(to be published April 2020)
‘A spiritual love affair with the land’
This collection of poems is a result of the author’s spiritual journey and reveals a powerful personal account through a deep and profound connection to the land of Scotland. Both emotional and touching, with universal themes of nature and love at the centre, the author portrays a transformational effect of stunning Scottish landscapes on the soul and life as a whole. Engaging in an emotional struggle to bring spiritual and earthly together, this eloquent collection is written with devotion and reverence and offers an exploration of a spiritual identity through the land. Through the poems, the author shows how the beauty of natural places can be soothing and hopeful in times of turmoil. At its heart, this volume is a spiritual love story between the land and the author, exploring the elements of nature as they are in the wild, as well as in our souls.
“… when I first stepped upon the land my heart exploded in ecstasy. My love affair began when I first experienced this strange merging with something primal and bigger than myself.”
What does it mean to belong to the wind, water and sand
When your body craves its wilderness like some light or food that promises heaven
Heaven it is, indeed, it is
I know it by quenching my thirst by standing on its ancient shores
I am you and you are me eternally bonded like perfectly matched body cells
Like an animal I crawl through heather-fragranced hills sniffing its soft magic as if my last breath
My body relaxes
My senses awake
I know this land is my home
My solace, my heart
A breath of new energy needed
I find my peace and sacred space
In you and only you
My one constant, unchangable vessel that carries all that is good and desired
It calms when internal seas rise wild
It teaches when mind is lost
It embraces when sorrow wraps round my heart
It cleans when tears are plentiful
It centres when the world is lost
It grounds when things are shaky
It balances when I struggle to come back
It speaks when the voice is lost
Most of all it maintains a state of feeling and being always here, constant anchor like a faithful dog or a trusted old ship that helps me navigate life
Like a good old tree that stands against all odds and always here to welcome me whatever the weather or season or state of the world
The one constant – nature! The everlasting light and mother, a life-long friend and companion, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing me to know you truly, love you deeply and relate to you till the end of my days
I fell in love on the day the sun stood still in the sky and a breathe in the land’s air touched places in me I never knew existed
I fell to my knees struck breathless not knowing what I was or where
Yet deep inside my soul the knowing was strong as if an old tale I had heard a million times was unfolding in front of me
I fell in love just like that first time as if I had always known you
It is here I belong and only here the land speaks through me in language we both understand
In the silence of land’s dreaming I feel my blood streaming through it’s valleys, my tears part of its ocean and every cell within me matches hers
