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Stones of the Night III… Stuart France

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …After a longer than expected climb up the steeper than anticipated side of the plateaux, you are finally within appraisal distance of the pointed stone. Its presence, which now looms towards you, defining the false horizon, seems to demand … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night II… Stuart France

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …As the ferns thin you spy a wooden stile up ahead and descend the grassy-knoll rather too quickly for the conditions underfoot, trotting to the stile side, precariously, and resting awhile to catch your breath. A road runs to … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night… Stuart France

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* You are a passenger… You stay under glass… You are driven through the city’s ripped back-sides. You leave the city’s ripped back-sides on a road which snakes through low, rough, foothills. Far on the horizon a solitary fin-shaped peak … Continue reading →

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Striding out… Stuart France

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* If all goes well You’ll be setting out… * * For a landscape of old About which legends are told… * * Where hermits habitually stay And giant figures still play. * Source: Stuart France

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Baecca’s Well… Stuart France

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* From Baecca’s Well Via All Saint’s Spire * * To a rocky height That holds initiatory fire… * Source: Stuart France

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Adoration of the One? III… Stuart France

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “As an aid to poesis the Chain of Being works in numerous ways.” * * “It lends life to the notion of an interconnected cosmos without superfluity and raises the dignity of creation by recognising its symbiotic heights and … Continue reading →

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Adoration of the One? II… Stuart France

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “Another curiosity, found in the Chain of Being, held that each class possessed a ‘primate’.” * * “The eagle among birds, the lion among beasts, the king or emperor among men.” * * “Other primacies were the sun among … Continue reading →

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Adoration of the One?… Stuart France

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “It is a curious attribute of the Chain of Being, that it allowed every class to excel, ‘after its own heart’.” * * “Stones may be considered ‘lowly’ but they ‘trump’ the class above them, plants, in both strength … Continue reading →

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Old Priest’s Parlour… Stuart France

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* Where silver trees have bent their bough O’er sleepy village streets, we go to solve the riddle of the stones A scattered presence in a row. * To nourish soul and body’s need- A place where ancient bards ovate, … Continue reading →

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Alder-Ley… Stuart France

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* A rift in the bed-rock Makes us wonder Just what is destined to emerge… A poisonous fume Or the trailing plumes Of a Sun-Bird? * Source: Stuart France