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Great poem from Wilfred and a wonderful way for Marrok to write a new legend. Is it the Stone near Graywinter Watch?
I'm going to update the gallery too, using the main image of this set for your piece/entry within the gallery.
Overall I'm thrilled that you shared this, really amazing work my friend. Bravo Jon!
thanks wolf good luck and take care
I read slowly and carefully, because the poem you share of this feeling I think very highly qualified, I do not know much about Wilfred Campbell's.
this poem like a mantra, must understand every word presented. every word that means, every word of it is prayer. Thanks to share.
I want to give you kudos, but already give before of this. so I give you a prayer, true prayer.
intermezo;
1. for a poem I really like the works of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.
2. in my real world where mystical culture and the supernatural life still strong, such things as changes in the human form of stealth, shaman, practice seance, possession is normal in everyday life although now slowly been eroded by modern culture.
*sorry if i wrong write in grammar or something like that.
Thank you to the link to Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi - I have looked him up on google and will check out some of his writings.
I wanted to say something in regards to Intermezo item #2 on your comment. I have always loved mysticism, mythology, supernatural, folklore, and things that connect to mind and the unknown. Modern culture does eat away at all that. I am always torn between my scientific self that believes in very little and that of my mystical self that wants to believe in something more. Probably why I like writing and playing in the world of fantasy.
Poetry is also very apt to your way of thinking lycanthropy, located on the fault that separates the Nordic pagan world, from Christianity.
I think the halo, represents the existence of a nucleus, together wild and innocent and holy, inside humanity and being. A sort of archiac naturalness, a pure animality where you see an inviolable refuge, a nucleus even of violent resistance and rebellion that is opposed to the society with all its vast apparatus of exploitation and subjugation that reduces every entity to a mere instrument for its purposes of domain.
Christianity has been the means by which this type of society of technique we live in, was manifested and taken hold, although it wasn't the exact intention. Francis of Assisi, she tried through her mystic reconstitution of a relationship of unity with creation, but it was how to stop an avalanche. Myth is dead, nature has ceased to be sacred and profane losing its pantheistict form to become gemetrical a space, made for man and to his measure. The animal, tree, grass and the moon and the universe ceased to speak to the shaman and poet, to become the means by which men would become master of the universe to make them similar to god.
For thw video Vampires and werewolves have much in common, for this they fight. Werewolves indignantly refuse civilization while vampires, gradually abandon the exile of the tomb, groped for the return of the repressed, to integrate with the Society in the illusion of dominating and parasitic. Vampires and werewolves have in common the wolf and animality, why in the video end to mate, strange thing, as one race is alive while the other is (Un)dead. There is a vital core, which is immortal and libidinal at the mutual fund.
This is what comes to mind actually.
Myth is dead, nature has ceased to be sacred and profane losing its pantheistict form to become gemetrical a space, made for man and to his measure. The animal, tree, grass and the moon and the universe ceased to speak to the shaman and poet, to become the means by which men would become master of the universe to make them similar to god.
Is a great paragraph you wrote. Our world today has many, many benefits (health advances for one, possibly less violence and more civilized but that is a hard thing to judge and certainly anytime you watch the news you would be hard pressed to say there is less violence) but it also comes with a price, at least IMO, that is steep.
But I have no answers. I am no genius, philosopher, poet, or mystic. I just wished we treated the world, animals, and each other better and with more respect.
So much of human existence bothers me that sometimes I like to daydream I am just a beast (werewolf or otherwise) running in a primal forest, untouched by humanity, with my pack. Perhaps even take a she-wolf as a mate and raise pups for the pack. But I have been in a bleaker mood of late and so I think the life of an animal seems simpler and less complicated in comparison.