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These poems maintain been moved by the Idol Brighid herself. They seasoned wrecked the course of a appointment from the original Charm I ended to Bride at Candlemass in February 2008. This is the top poem in the move.
The move for that reason follows the move smoothly of the Celtic appointment, with New Blind date starting in the softness of Samhuinn (November), and working by the use of Indifferent Solstice, Imbolc, Arise Equinox, Beltane, Summer Solstice, Lammas and finishing with Autumn Equinox. The poems take in nuances and entertaining correspondences to the Festivals they portray and are preordained to be cast-off prayerfully and broodingly featuring in the Anniversary pizzazz.
Energetic near to the sea in Ayrshire, Scotland, I habitually see the Oystercatcher drink the shore and glory in the streak between this elegant bird and Brihde. The rhyme is part of their sole.
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May the Blessing of Brighid be regularly with you
May the Blessing of Brighid be regularly with colonize you love
May the Blessing of Brighid be regularly a subtle and eternal sparkle in your end
AN Charm TO BRIHDE AT CANDLEMASS
1 February
Bless`ed Brihde my one choose
Is you in advance me by the fire
Scattering brightness of afire light
Bringing end to winter's night.
You're both municipal as sacred Bride
And greeted at this Imbolc-tide.
Your triple aptitude speaks to me:
Healer, imitate and rhyme.
Blest Brihde your spirit touches search -
The name of Smith is in my line.
The words I go through are clue of Brihde
My garden heals a world in yearning
I thank you for the gifts you send
Of snowdrop flowers at winter's end
And in return I send your way
An Imbolc gift of milk this day.
Blest Brihde melodious Female of the Copy
Make plain my delay path
Inspire my words and heal my anguish
And help me imitate my life another time
SAMHUINN
1 November
Not more than upper of softness the Old Blind date seeps remark
Dissertation becoming thinner, weaker, optional extra diluted
Fraying at the edges, worn out, discolored and grey
Tired cloth, feeble, feathered jute.
Not more than upper of softness the New Blind date grows apace
Dissertation becoming tougher, stronger, optional extra razor-sharp
Knitting at the edges, broderie anglais, lace
Soaking colour, pearlised with a deeper develop
Between the feathering and the filigree
Resplendent chiffon separates the two
A suspicious world concealed in organdie
But does old end? But starts the new?
This sacred pizzazz of Set apart Eve
Samhuinn Depressing - the Old Year's pursue -
Allows for hall by the use of the catnap
For ancestors to bad-tempered the swathe
Not more than upper of softness mysteries stretch out
The pit is stitched together, memories go limp
But in secret shadow out of the winter high-pitched
Communicate shines the light of Brighid in gold brocade!
Indifferent SOLSTICE
21 December
In the calm of the Tell Day
The mounting sun dawns relatively alone
A barely sunbeam casts a golden ray
On a solitary frosted standing stone
In the forest warm from the storm
A unicorn glimpsed white by the use of revealing blizzard
Spirited prisms of glossy crystal ice
Make plain the sickled mistletoe
Ivy entwines the berried holly tree
A deer slips by unseen in the tint
The sun paints fingers of streaming light
On the cross the exhausted suffer of the dip
The locale sun sinks a little at a time now twilight
Slowness gathers very old - candlelight
The pine log crackles fragrant in the open hearth
The Tell Day : the Keep a note Depressing
The Ruler of Glow and Emaciated puts on her boots
And wraps her cover expeditious to her element
It's time for work - a six week flight to the sand
To bring the world to life at Imbolc-tide
IMBOLC
1 February
Brihde crossed the machair to the sea
An oystercatcher in her hand
She scooped a cup of the mounting sun
And spread sunbeams o'er the land
Arise EQUINOX
21 Movement
Arise is not a time of sect
It jumps and jerks and wrestles free
Movement hares boxing predetermined wild-eyed
Buds erupting on the tree
Hold out year's seeds flurry now life
Established earth cracks as shoots get up
Wild winds bank straddling the sea
And trounce the flooding tidal fall
A time to helix in advance you beginning
To put into practice Hoodwink - walk off the ledge
A time of reckless inanity, gamble
To deduce to tetragon on the edge
Herne the Accuser heralds havoc
Dances in a fairy ring
Mad Hatter loups straddling the fields
Also stops, high-fives Bleeding Man of Arise
Bridie wrings a rainbow out
Cascading colours sunshade the hills
Small valley and garden lime green
And golden dancing daffodils
BELTANE
01 May
On the fields encircling the bridle-path
Environmentally friendly coworker sparkles in dawning dew
The day stands tip-toe, waiting, agreed
Beltane sun is flaming by the use of
In a underhanded blossom-laden dash
The scent of hawthorn fills the air
Brihde bestows a crookedly of flexibility
As she tends the birthing of a in the family way charger
Lovers circle spiralled garland
Dancing by the use of the May Day morn
Phone up and glee, Beltane signal
Labour ends. A pony is innate
SUMMER SOLSTICE
21 June
In all the argue of biting light
Of fierce blinding transfiguring sparkle
Of the power and the dedication of the Astronomical circle
Brihde a rose by any other name
Brihde the Ruler of Glow and Emaciated
Who hangs her cover on the Sun
Brihde of self-assurance, strength and weight
Brihde of life ere life begun
Brihde of Solstice in stately standing
You come with light for the good of all
But your throne is a daisy bordered by bees
For you overheat with love for all things midstream
LAMMAS
1 Revered
Bridie drowses in the barley,
on the way to Lammas Accurate.
Weaves the crop stalks in a circle;
plaited poppies in her hair.
Kinsfolk scan at the bonfire:
contracts actioned; bought and sold.
A time of stride, introspection.
Stomach in the new, give up the old.
Blest Female cutting remark me as I am and scan me
as new-scythed lump
Free arms in winnowing storm,
dispersion seeds to be reborn.
Brighid of hearth, your oven bakes
the collect of the Lammas fork.
The bread is shared; a mystic glimpse:
a world at war is treasured, healed.
The Oystercatcher flutes at dawn,
a very good in her soulful suggest.
The barn is full, the collect ends.
Joy summer preludes autumn fall.
AUTUMN EQUINOX
21 September
Amongst jovial lucrative explanation piercing
Robin's sole announces Autumn's participating in
Day and night are equivalent array
Slowness comes to northern hemisphere.
A time of wretchedness - Summer's wrecked
Thoughts and hopes turn golden fry up and die
Vegetation cutting remark the gamble to stand bony, lonely
About the Winter's light and icy appetite.
Their boughs are lithe, laden down with fruit
Apple, hazel, beechmast, berry, haw -
Flora and fauna and insects riffle by the use of the carnival
Ample today - bearing in mind Indifferent comes, no optional extra.
A wave of hurting floods residence from the sea
Atlantic side unresponsive on the strand
A curlew gathers molluscs with the undercurrent
Dunlin collect crop twixt sea and land.
The oystercatcher, municipal as Gille Brihde
Dips her beak in sand at day's end light
The locale sun sinks aqueous by the use of the haze
Damp and hazy, gentle, for that reason lost from mess.
The storm of relocate rampages from the west
A time to stall the supply in the byre
A time to set the ewes down in the washout
To taciturn the doors and windows, stroke the fire.
From now the appointment progresses to its end
Partial days and late afternoon lump.
But know that all the after the softness reigns
That Brihde strength come with beam in the Arise.
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