Civilisation
The need for ownership breeds
Contemptuous greed
Accumulating desires
Reassurance of status
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Time will take its toll
Breaking secure illusions
Castles in the air
Even the grandest vision
To dust returns and crumbles
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Raised and broken down
The life-cycle of nations
Nature still holds sway
The mistress of the pheonix
Breathes life into the embers
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For Colleen’s poetry challenge
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Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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WOW Wow WOW, this is good.
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Thanks. Ennle.
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Most welcome, Sue!
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Seconded! 🙂
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I just listened to Frank Prem reading from Devil in the Wind. This is a perfect follow-up.
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Thanks, Audrey 🙂
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Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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Thanks for sharing, Jaye x
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I love this poem! The images are dancing around in my head of the grandeur of castles, ‘reassurance of status’, which of course they were, and the all-too-true notion that the ‘grandest vision to dust returns and crumbles’. Wonderful imagery in words, and full of atmosphrere. By the way, which castle is that? It seems familiar but I can’t place it. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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Thanks, Alli. The photographs are of Penrith Castle, where we began our December workshop last year. Such a rich history… there are more pictures here: https://thesilenteye.co.uk/2018/12/14/full-circle-finding-the-way-home/
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Ah, Penrith! I knew I recognised it from photos but I haven’t been there yet. Thanks for the link – I really enjoyed reading through the post and about the castle. I know what you mean about the strong ‘gut punch’ feel of a place. I get that at a lot of castles – one really great one up in the North is Dunstanburgh, an iconic ‘bolt-between-the-eyes’ castle ruin on a rocky headland in Northumberland. If you haven’t already been there I’d recommend it. Two great posts, Sue. 🙂
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We were at Dunstanburgh for the September workshop last year. We get about a bit 😉
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Ah, then you’ll know what I mean. Special place. 🙂
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That whole stretch of coastline… and especially Lindisfarne…is rather special 🙂
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Oh yes, absolutely, I adore Lindisfarne. I love the Saxon saints, and the history. Again, a very special place with a unique and haunting atmosphere. That’s one of the reasons I want to live up there after I’ve done my MA at York uni. 🙂
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I’d go north like a shot too, if I could… 🙂
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A kindred spirit in the north… and of course you hail from Yorkshire anyway, so you must miss it. 🙂
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I do…and thank the stars I get to play on the moors most months 🙂
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Oh wow, I wish I did. Roll on my MA in York… 🙂
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When are you due to start?
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I’ve got two more modules to do to complete my degree, so a couple of years hence. 😦 But it’s going very well, and I’m already talking to the Department of Medieval Studies up there. Also, luckily my tutor from last year is a medieval historian and author and has offered to be a referee for my application to York uni. So everything’s crossed… 🙂
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Sounds like you are well on your way 🙂
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Thanks, Sue. It all means the world to me. 🙂
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I can sort of tell, Alli 😉
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Ah, sorry about that. 🙂 (I can’t do a winking face, the only ones I know how to do is a smile an a sad face!)
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Oh, I envy you being able to follow your passion in that way. I follow mine, but less formally 😉 ( And the wink is semicolon and bracket )
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Thanks, Sue. I’m glad you follow your passion too. It comes across in your beautiful writing. (Like this? – 😉 )
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Yep, like that 😉
I count myself blessed to be able to follow it and share it here and through the Silent Eye 🙂
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It looks a wonderful project, Sue. And it must be wonderful to meet and work with like-minded people and spend time with them. I don’t know many medievalists! 😉
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It is… and there are a good many amongst us that take a great interest in parts of medieval history too. You cannot divorce the spiritual history of the nation and its people from the remnants of earlier times that we find in the medieval churches. One reason why we visit so many of them 😉
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It sounds as though you’ve met some lovely people. I’ll have to try and get along to a workshop one day when madness of hectic life allows. I think you’re doing a wonderful thing. 🙂
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I think you would enjoy some of the places we go to… they are all part of one long story.
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Sounds amazing. 🙂
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Ooh, so wonderfully Sue! Enjoyed this in my inbox this morning.
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Thank you 🙂
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I do like this Sue.💜
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Thanks, Willow 🙂
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