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    Moonlight Through Glass.
    Moonlight Through Glass.
    Moonlight Through Glass.
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    Moonlight Through Glass.

    By Simon H. Lilly

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    This is the first published collection of poetry from Simon H. Lilly, an artist and lecturer who is also an established writer on esoteric healing. The majority of the works are from the last two years, with a selection of earlier poems spanning four decades. There are over a hundred poems, from short, haiku-style pieces to longer performance texts and epic narratives. The landscape of the changing seasons is often the backdrop upon which the nature of mind, awareness and reality is explored. His poetic influences are the spiritual landscapes evoked by Classical Chinese and Japanese poets, the rhythms and word-play of Old English charms and spells, and the wistful lilt and muscle of the Celtic bardic traditions, particularly the contemporary Scottish Gaelic masters.
    Rich language, sometimes dense, sometimes light, always looking to recreate an instant within memory, a picture in words. Quiet, contemplative, but never sentimental, he describes these poems as "flocks of thoughts watched from a quiet distance".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon H. Lilly
    Release dateFeb 20, 2013
    ISBN9781905454167
    Moonlight Through Glass.
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    Simon H. Lilly

    Simon Lilly trained as a Fine Artist and has always valued the power of visual, poetic and magical imagery to directly communicate with the unconscious mind. Together with his wife, Sue, he has been involved in many aspects of healing for over thirty years. As well as teaching on Tree Spirit Healing, Crystal Therapy and Flower Essences around the world, they have together written over thirty books on their work. Poetry has always been scribbled into diaries and sketchbooks, but the medium of the web blog has generated a wealth of new written material for him in the last few years. He hopes to develop further the integration of the written word with visual images as well as in silversmithing, if time allows! Simon lives with Sue and Treacle the cat in a cottage deep in the Heart of Wales where the flavours of the changing seasons can be fully savoured.

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      Moonlight Through Glass. - Simon H. Lilly

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      MOONLIGHT THROUGH GLASS

      Collected Poems 2011 – 2012

      Simon H. Lilly

      Published by Simon H. Lilly at Smashwords.

      Copyright 2013 Simon Hughes Lilly

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Woke like Coleridge

      Words are pictures (echoes of tsunami)

      Nocturne: Perigee

      Djinns for dinner

      Mahakali

      End of the year

      The long call

      Long, cold night

      Moon frozen solid

      Green morning

      Silver and still

      Looking down

      Crow

      White page

      Song of the Yew Teacher

      November’s song

      The yaffle

      This is not haiku (tsunami memorial)

      Haiku souvenirs

      Eight haiku for a year of days

      Eight haiku for shrouded night

      Six haiku for gentle night

      Six haiku for timeless days

      Demons of gravity

      Throb and thring

      Dissolving, dissolving into light

      Easter

      A drift of angels

      Minor retrospective

      Dust that sings

      April notes

      Web log

      Three charms

      Poisonous suns

      Melting of Obstacles

      Shield

      Star Protectors

      Charm for Immanence

      Oak spell: Charm for Success

      Crow voices

      Honshu

      Rising sun

      Apple Song for the Ripening Year

      Apple Spell

      When I am dead and dreaming

      Ash Charms

      Cockerel

      From Lammas to Autumn Equinox

      Looking tonight

      Night rain, summer rain

      Hung as a hawk

      The shell’s song

      Lammas Eve

      A satire upon them

      Blessed be

      Fragile

      Spice of Death

      Absence

      Balance point

      Mind,moon,circle

      Corvus corone corone

      Night’s Road

      Night patterns

      Ice, eyes, land, time

      Palindrome

      Wolf month

      February

      Pillow

      The avenues of evening

      Two women

      Once only

      Hypothesis

      Koto (word jam)

      November drifts in

      Falling, falling

      Mind is clouds

      Flakes of falling flame, figments, fragments

      Blossoms of the Dakini

      Maybe the moon

      Transit of Venus

      One moment

      Solstice: words revolve around a standing sun

      Sunday morning

      Report from a British summer

      Dream, dreamer, dreaming

      Light of Lammas

      The wrong signs

      Summer notes

      Basho by the pond

      Night blinks

      Howlin’ Wolf or summ’t

      Moon dust (in memoriam Neil Armstrong)

      Spirit of Elm

      A heron glides

      All Saint’s Eve

      Autumnal kennings

      Forecast

      Diagnosis

      Less than perfect

      Clouds

      In timeless time

      An infection of bards

      November

      Withering

      Recognition

      Night watch

      Our voice

      Our music

      Winter solstice

      WOKE LIKE COLERIDGE

      Woke like Coleridge from the opium of sleep:

      Flashes of glimmer, scales of colour

      Slippery eels: sinuous,

      Muscular lines of language

      Lost in murky depths.

      Sitting in dapples of sunlight.

      Lost in the tree tops are the voices of doves,

      Maybe angels or djinns

      Blown in from the desert

      Lonely after so many endless years

      Of pious rigid-backed denial -

      The bitter tongues of the righteous.

      So many pious years.

      In the dark cool cave before dawn:

      Day by day

      The moon is filling up

      With tears.

      Even with a thousand arms,

      Kannon,

      How shall you gather up

      All the lost?

      How encompass

      All the bereft?

      Things are moments

      And cannot be prevented

      From flying away.

      Even the stars.

      Even the stars

      This spring,

      Under the cherry blossom,

      Will gather the wan smiling ghosts

      Once more.

      We are dust

      Held together by song.

      Sing

      Sing

      Before the song is forgot.

      The tongues of the djinn fading in daylight.

      Muttering back to the cerebellum,

      To practice cadence

      And metre.

      To hear voices in Arabic is to hear

      The wind as it dances and whips

      Around tent wires and mast heads,

      Aeolian harmony between knotted spirals,

      Dust devils, sand patterns.

      Well water,

      Cold night air,

      Crescent

      moon.

      (In Kuwait,

      She said,

      Every household

      Had a musician,

      Every one

      A diver

      For pearls

      Of cool, iridescent

      Beauty.

      Notes from an oud

      in the shade of nightfall...)

      WORDS ARE PICTURES (echoes of tsunami)

      White page

      White mind.

      The mind moves

      The pen moves.

      Outside sounds fade

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