Green Book Of Meditations Volume 6 The Books of Songs - Student ...

(chorus)
we are the winds on the oceans wave
we are the sparkly in the crystal cave
we are the wings of a hawk in flight
we transform beings that have gained the sight
Haiku Corner
By Ian Friesland, Ice Floe Grove
Ok, all you Asian aficionados out there-
here’s the first ever known Antarctican Haiku (5-7-5 poem)
South-pole’s Mid-Summer
No trees, no birds, no rivers.
And it is still cold.
Leaves swept in river’s flow,
Many colored, tossed and tumbling.
This is retirement?
The Existential Moment (1997)
By K.D. Bennett or Spring Child of Berkeley
'Tis a cold, dark night as all seem to be
Melancholic, morbid, romantic characteristically
One such as I who penned these words, being all entwined in me
Can gaze out into this night and, nomadic, free
Give thanks unto myself for quietude; night's hush
Feels me flush 'gainst dream, feeling, thought; plush
Is the plenty of leafy tree's rustling rush
And the mystical chirping of dark friend cricket in that brush.
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Bardic Salvo #4: Dec 15 th , 2001
By Sine Ceolbhinn, D.C. Grove
Yuletide Caroling
Strangely enough, Christmas is one of the few times of the
year that we feel like singing with our neighbours outside of a
karaoke bar. Easter songs? A few. Groundhog Day songs? Not
likely. We all want to sing, but trip over the uncomfortable lyrics,
right? I decided to but together a little list of songs that a pagan
could use in company with their monotheistic friends.
I few hours of scanning the internet has given me a
collection of popular songs that didn’t dwell on babies in food
troughs, righteous crowns, deceased people with bird wings, and
ecstatic shepherds hearing voices in the dark (won’t even go
there.) I prefer my own improbable stories (grin.) Just change
“Christmas” to “Yuletide” and most are okay. Santa Claus is
rather unavoidable, but he’s nearly pagan, and so I let him slide.
Many of the songs on the list below have on-line free music-files
& lyrics at:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ai251/xcarol.html
Auld Lang Syne
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting)
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Deck the Halls
Do They Know its Christmastime at All?
Frosty the Snowman
Grandma Got Hit by a Reindeer
The Grinch’s Theme Song
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Here Comes Santa Claus
Holly Jolly Christmas
Home For The Holidays
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bell Rock
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Let It Snow
O Christmas Tree
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
Silver and Gold
Silver Bells
Sleigh Ride
That Christmas Feeling
Up on the Rooftop
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
White Christmas
Winter Wonderland
Pondering Celtic Clans
old castles where once the breath of life was strong
reminds my of my slaughtered ancestors
living in peace, joy, and strength
gathering their children for the telling of tales
now nothing but graveyards remain
castles turned to funeral pyres
and no one left to weep for them
who were there first, and reeled
at the beautiful bounty they experienced in nature
a small candle, a sputtering torch
a pile of dead wood gathered for the fire
a fresh mug of herbal tea and a wan smile
waking bleary eyed in the fog
tending horses for their journeys
who were not merely servants, but friends
now thinking that all things must come to their ends
and knowing ends for what they truly are
new beginnings
my that sounds pleasant
but it doesn't do a thing for them
my ancient ancestors of yore
---kdbennett
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I loved them dearly, I loved them strong
How we all used to get along
In the sun and coming together
In the rain light as Eagle's feather
There, where the stone meets the sky
A fire kept sealed in my mind's eye
Which has seen stranger things
Waits to behold what the future brings
Patiently
For the most part.
---kdbennett