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Post by anirbas on Mar 10, 2007 9:59:58 GMT -6
Rise, rise, rise up...
Children of the darkness...
Stand proud in the daylight of your awesome
truths...Baptised and baptising the wickedness
of beyond redemptional sins in the beauteous simplicity
of telling it like it is...Reminding the sheep to be wary...
It's a cold world out there...Tears of joy fall easily
to any eye, over the most mundane
of events...Tears of pain
fall hard when they
fall at all...
They are hard won,
not easily given
as joyous tears...
And when
they do slip fall...
They are a beautiful
treasure trove of release spilling
the hard, diamondic light of truth...
I call that, running with the Hagga...
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Post by anirbas on Mar 10, 2007 12:37:03 GMT -6
The Hagga, is a "mythological" character spoken of in cultural folklore and tales.
A fearsome haggish creature that carries the skull light of truth...
To shine the light of the truth into the cracks and crevices of darkness
or expose the truth of any individual person's wickedness, etc...
Is what the Hagga does...
I first encountered the Hagga, in Women Who Run with the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
The title is misleading...Makes you think it's another book about women learning how to
access their feminine inner powers and strengths...And it half is...But, it is chockful
of cultural folktales from all over the world...Even, the Brothers Grimm work
is represented in it...
I have a tendancy to see Dark genre poetry writers, as individual Haggas...
And so was inspired to write this piece by the Hagga folklore and our
inestimable Dark board writers, here.
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Post by tolteclogic on Mar 10, 2007 13:10:48 GMT -6
I've enjojed Este's from the Sounds True collection
typically i will listen to books on tape while painting
however today, i be jammin on some old songs on
my recently resurrected sound system while
writing.... Steve Winwood, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison
('Enlightenment' of course what a great disk),
Bruce Cockburn and Ray Lynch etc, etc, a day for
mellow tunes. Thanks for the clarification here
Nir as we all know there are many shades of 'dark'.
Also it appears to be a good day for numbers just
hit 777 'to be a poet'. Seems a good place to
start a new beginning.
in spirit
tl
love the poem - hope to finish that portrait
this weekend - signing off
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Post by DavidMc on Mar 10, 2007 18:22:19 GMT -6
Better than 'Running with scissors' LOL!
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Post by vixen on Mar 10, 2007 19:26:15 GMT -6
Wonderful offerning sweetie. There are many dark truths being sung by our crew in the dark. Hugs Vixen
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Post by soulfir3 on Mar 10, 2007 19:33:23 GMT -6
intriguing write, Sabrina. Interesting background info too - thanks for sharing
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Post by anirbas on Mar 10, 2007 23:47:44 GMT -6
TL had me in shock...A man, who'd heard of Estes...And good to know work
on the portrait is going well...Paint on!
Then David, you zonked me with humor and I just feel out of the chair...LOL...
Better than running with scissors...Been there, done that, too...ggglggglgggl...
Yes, Vix, many dark truths sung by any given group or individual...
Felt I'd better add the background info, Soul, when I reread it...As I realized,
without it, it wouldn't make any sense, to anyone that hadn't read the book...
I knew Dawn would get it, she's read the book, too...Perhaps a few of our ladies
who might have come across it...
Thank you all for reading and commenting here. Your input and thoughts mean much to me!
Sabrina.
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Post by brandnewmessiah on Mar 13, 2007 7:50:19 GMT -6
Brilliant and enlightening Anir, I loved it! ~ BNM
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Post by anirbas on Mar 13, 2007 21:39:39 GMT -6
Thanks a million, Troy! ;D
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