Back in the summer, I spent a day with the Church Mission Society in Oxford, England. I taught on the subject of working in festival settings. Afterwards, I did a short interview with Naomi Steinberg about Halloween, Burning Man, learning to befriend Witches, and general festival outreach. You can find the interview at the top … More Interview with Church Mission Society in the UK
Sonnet #42 on the Greenman He hides among the stories past, but now he has no name, with stonied face he laughs or scowls, or smiles, or frowns, or cries. Who knows what mood is carved by ancient cunning crafts? The wintered face of death after the fall The brambled, twisted, tortured crown of thorns … More Sonnet #42 – on the Greenman
Just practicing poetry, and thought I’d do some sonnets for awhile. Here is the first of my current flash of sonnets: Sonnet #1 Consider now the ancient ways of God Where broken men toward holiness have trod a lonely path through sin and emptiness, forgotten works and squalid loneliness Heroes laid bare by greedy power … More Sonnet #1 (because rhyming is uncool to postmodern poets) 😉
Phil Wyman: Dim Saesneg 