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Imbolc

I stand alone

In a dark wood
Facing the moon
Lit by her beauty
Underfoot
Life is stirring
A wing sweeps
Forward
The maiden Brigid
Treads barefoot
Igniting my roots
One by one
The winds buffet me
Light, dark
Dark, light
The trees stand
Still
Soon the Cailleach
Will release her hold
On our dreams

(Jan 2023)

An Cailleach

Look to the skies and you will see her; 
as the buzzard soars in the wind drifts
Look to the seas and you will hear her;
as the seal dances with the moon tides
Look to the earth and you will smell her;
as the cow grazes on the clover life

She is the mountain, the wind, the babbling brook;
She is the red, hot fire of your blood
and the stony cold rock of your bones;
She is our landscape,
She is everywhere,
Present in everything

Untouchable, immovable, timeless
Grandmother, Wise Woman, An Cailleach
She Whose Body is the Earth