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The Tyrant of Uruk…

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Sue Vincent

*  “The Eternal City of Uruk… See how its ramparts gleam like copper in the sun… Climb the ancient staircases up stone more ancient than mind… Approach the Temple of Eanna… Sacred precinct of the Goddess Ishtar… Her priestesses stand … Continue reading →

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Castles of the Mind (ii) – Steve Tanham

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Continued from Part One As the group walk through the arched entranceway to the interior of the castle, a new feeling emerges: one of ‘being in it, together’. The transition from outer to inner space of the newly considered ‘organism’ … Continue reading →

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Castles of the Mind (i) – Steve Tanham

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Like the best of ideas, it begins with a partly-seen ghost, the glimmer of an edge of something that will work…. Ideas are great, but, unless something is practical and consistent on the day, its value is limited to fuelling … Continue reading →

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Patterned in Dorset (4 – final) – Steve Tanham

Posted on June 24, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Steve’s interpretation of one of the sites visited on the recent Silent Eye workshop in Dorset: He did not know how many were up there… Centurion Calogerus stared at the edge of the plateau above him. The vast hill-fort rose … Continue reading →

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Lord of the Deep – Workshop April 2019

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Sue Vincent

The Silent Eye’s Spring workshop for 2019 * The glories above were unamed. The word for that world beneath, unuttered. Source and time, unfettered, merged… From the mingling waves-of-water came mud and slime. Enshar and Kishar, twin halves of the … Continue reading →

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A practical course…

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Sue Vincent

“…am I missing something?” The frantic voice on the phone made it quite clear that he really hoped he was… “There’s a grey ring with symbols on it. Turn it to the one with parallel lines.” “Okay, done that.” “Then, … Continue reading →

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Dreaming

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Sue Vincent

I dreamed you last night. You were the heart that listened to my fears, Comforting the pain with tea and tissues And attentive ears. You were there with me as I faced them, Slaying them one by one, with logic … Continue reading →

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WHAT’S UP DOC? Lines of communication IV…

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* …’All colour had faded from the sky and although the big board by the gate creaked slightly in the night wind, there was no passer-by to read the sharp, hard letters that cut straight as black knives across its … Continue reading →

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Jewels in the Claw (III) – Steve Tanham

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Continued from Part Two The man with the packing case pauses as he passes the place that was the East, the place from which the Queen began her direction of proceedings in this, her favourite palace of Nonsuch, in 1590’s … Continue reading →

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The Ghost Ship – Steve Tanham

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Sue Vincent

The Ghost Ship —- They come from land and some by wave To travel brave and not unnerved Across a globe described by one Who sees in numbers straight and curved —- That one, disgraced, must face a queen Must … Continue reading →

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