Hexagrams
Six Six and six Six and six and six Is this the number of the beast? Six is followed by seven Is this the number of heaven? Who knows what these numbers Really mean, if anything at all Hexagram Is it six or is it seven Is it hell or is it heaven? The symbol of completion Hexagram is six but one more A point of balance Lets get right down to the core Six is incomplete But seven is really heaven Why? Because the cycle is complete Six work days And one to rest as a treat Six planets to transmute And one result The six became seven Seven is seventh heaven Why is that? Mystical hexagram Follow that star Mystical symbol Shining afar Find out about the Hexagram
Read More »Welcome to the Czech Republic!
Isn’t it funny how some days stuff just happens? Today, for the first time ever, the post woman actually rang my doorbell. She had a special delivery for me. Now, usually, she wouldn’t bother to check if I was in but lazily dump a little note in the box in the hallway telling me to get my fat backside down to the post office to collect it. Oh, and do that within 10 business days or we will return it to sender undelivered. That’s how it normally works anyway. Today, she smiled sweetly at me and said sign here please and give me ID (actually she said it in Czech of course so that’s not ACTUALLY what she said but more or less what she said). I took that little
Read More »Young Love
Pictures drifting on the ether Rising and falling Deeper and deeper Sensations remembered Laughter echoed in my mind Arms wrapped entwined Her eyes sparkled like jewels Reflecting the distant moon Her touch was like water Running and trickling All over my skin As we lay in a heated dune Out of the cooling breeze Hot breath as senses rose Depth of feelings rising Swirling, debilitating emotions Young loves’ sacred prose Together, forever in that moment Never to be repeated again The experience of another’s Warmth and passion Hermetically sealed in time Yet, easily revisited in mind Cherished, yet left behind Immortal – yet dead already.
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My latest collection of poetry – Moon Whispers – is a collection of what I believe to be my finest work to date and you can win a copy at Goodreads.com. Just pop over to Goodreads.com and enter. The winner is drawn at random by Goodreads and I will mail a signed paperback copy to the lucky winner on August 30th. Meanwhile, you can also still win a copy of my novel – The Last Observer – simply by liking my new author Facebook page – what could be easier? Again, I will mail a signed copy to the lucky winner. However, you must use the <a href="“>Rafflecopter form to enter. Finally, for a couple more days, Astral Messages is available on any Amazon site for free in Kindle format.
Read More »The Dream
Last night I was dreaming something though now I cannot recollect what it was. I know that it was a long and continuous dream and that I was in a remote and beautiful place. I was revisiting it with my partner and child. The place was familiar and yet not. I recall thinking it was the Island of Eigg but it was not – it was somewhere I have not been to in this reality. Anyway, I was walking down a rough lane between two flat fields of grass. My two companions were behind me a short distance. Up ahead, I could see two figures one an adult female and the other a child. As I saw them, it began to darken and to snow and I was thinking that
Read More »Theology of Hate
I can’t help looking at what is going on in the name of religion around the world and wonder why as a species we never learn. I think perhaps that is expressed in these few lines penned today….and trust me, I have in mind all organized religions at one time or another or in some place or another…. The sky is falling The end of the world is nigh Follow me or you will die Hell’s fires are waiting And unless you follow me You’ll surely burn eternally What I want to know Is what makes you my judge and jury? A pious fanatical pervert What I want to know Is how you can be so incredibly arrogant? So bloody intransigent I see nothing in your actions That reveals the
Read More »Astral Messages FREE on Kindle all weekend long..
Astral Messages is now FREE on Kindle on all Amazon sites in celebration of July 4th and for the next 5-days. Go grab a copy now.
Read More »The Travel Queen
I am just returned from an overnight trip to Prague where I dropped my Mother off for her return trip back to Beverley. She had been here 10-days and it was her 5th such trip since my Dad passed away. My Mum can talk the hind legs of a donkey and if you had a chance to chat, she would tell you how she has travelled the world because of me. And she has. It all started back in the late 1970’s with trips down to the Midlands to drop me off and pick me up at Aston University. That shifted to Leeds and then to Glasgow as I continued on with my PhD with the British Geological Survey and University of Strathclyde. It became Aberdeen when I started my
Read More »Independence Weekend Giveaway!
July 4th is Independence Day for some and to celebrate that fact I have set up my book Astral Messages as a FREE Kindle book for 5-days over that weekend. Don’t forget to grab your copy of Astral Messages on Kindle this coming weekend. Astral Messages uses poems and blog articles from my long standing blog – Asteroth’s Domain – in a discussion of reality and magic. We are all magicians willfully creating our realities and this selection demonstrates how this touches all aspects of our lives – yes, even our socks! There is a depth and openness to beauty in the poetry, a realisation of the multi-levelled nature of reality and perception in the prose… and already it shadows the thread of magic woven through this little book. Every
Read More »Songs from Another Era
I started writing poetry or more accurately perhaps lyrics, at the age of about 12. At that time, I had just received my first acoustic guitar for Christmas and had already formed a ‘band’ with Andy Wells, my next door neighbour. Andy has, I think, played around bands ever since in the USA where he now lives and owns a huge collection of guitars. We would sit in our front rooms strumming the odd malformed chord and dreaming in the way only adolescents can dream. Of course, the early 70’s really was a great time for this with wave after wave of new bands coming through and cranking out three chord singles by the bucket load. I particularly loved T.Rex I recall and fancied myself as another Marc Bolan. In
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