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Maponus / Mabon

lornasmithers wrote 5 months ago: Maponus is a god of youth, music and hunting who is known from dedications from the Romano-British p … more →

Tags: Article, Nick Ford, The Black Book of Caermarthen, Rheged, mythology, The Book of Taliessin, Maponus, Mabon, The Old North

The Awen4 comments

lornasmithers wrote 6 months ago:       The Awen I sing, From the deep I bring it, A river while it flows I know it’s e … more →

Tags: Poetry, Belisama, Annwn, ivy, The Bardic Tradition, Glosa, mythology, the otherworld, The Awen

Snapshot 2012: MK Hume1 comment

jason nahrung wrote 1 year ago: Queenslander MK (Marilyn) Hume worked as an English teacher for 40 years. She has studied art, Engli … more →

Tags: writing, Books, 2012Snapshot, MK Hume, king arthur, merlin, Guinevere, Charles Williams, Tennyson

SONG TO THE WIND - a poem from the BOOK OF TALIESSIN XVII.7 comments

johndhalsted wrote 1 year ago: Today we take a brief branch away from folklore and fairy tales but stay in Wales for some ancient b … more →

Tags: folklore, Folk Tales and Folklore, Poetry, Celtic Fairy Tales and Folklore, Moon, welsh folklore, Ancient welsh poetry, book of taliessin, Welsh poetry

Meet M K Hume ...9 comments

Rowena Cory Daniells wrote 1 year ago: As the next of my series featuring fantastic female fantasy authors (see disclaimer) I’ve invi … more →

Tags: Creativity, fantasy books, Genre, Australian Writers, book giveaway, Female Fantasy Authors, king arthur, merlin, MK Hume

The Substance of Prayer

Justinian wrote 2 years ago: Inside the walls of Lateran The Pope kneels at this prayers And the silent hopes of the Llogrian lor … more →

Tags: Poetry, The East, The West, Salvation, Byzantium, Arthuriana, sophia, Decay, Prayer 2

Taliessin's dream of the Holy Rood2 comments

Justinian wrote 2 years ago: Taliessin dreamed of the Holy Rood. Over the rough Roman water, water and blood That once poured fro … more →

Tags: Poetry, The Cross, Arthuriana, War, Holy Rood, Command, Cost, Holy Grail

Talliesin's dream of the Empire

Justinian wrote 2 years ago: Taliessin slept beside a crooked stream, deep in the heart of the mountains in the northern mists an … more →

Tags: Poetry, Wisdom, Byzantium, iconography, majesty, The Emperor, The Empire, Hagia Sophia, Wales

Taliessin commanding the king's horse2 comments

Justinian wrote 2 years ago: Taliessin practiced stillness. The war horn’s claxon Sounded the battle’s beginning, and … more →

Tags: Poetry, Warriors, cavalry, battle, War, patience, stillness, quietude, Solemnity

Taliessin atop the Tor

Justinian wrote 2 years ago: Taliessin stood atop heaven’s nail. There upon St. Michael’s mount the feel and the smel … more →

Tags: Poetry, Love, desire, Byzantium, Memory, sophia, St Michael's, The Tor, glastonbury

Taliessin and the division of the Table

Justinian wrote 2 years ago: The Divison of the Table’s lords began with Sir Cay; Mordred it was who proposed that the Lord … more →

Tags: Poetry, Friendship, The Matter of Brittain, Myth, Politics, Economics, Arthur, bors, Bedivere

Taliessin on Salisbury Plain1 comment

Justinian wrote 3 years ago: In darkness, Taliessin road in silence to the stones. In his bones he felt the shivering pulse of th … more →

Tags: Poetry, The East, The West, disaster, ruin, Stonehedge, Arthur, greed, Honor

Taliessin after the mass3 comments

Justinian wrote 3 years ago: Taliessin thumbed the strings of his harp. The mass was said, the people departed To homes in the hi … more →

Tags: Poetry, twilight, Icons, Beauty, The Matter of Brittain, Memory, sophia, Whispers, Heart

Taliessin's Leave-taking

Justinian wrote 3 years ago: Taliessin stood at the door to the west, Eschewing the uneasiness and confusion of Rome Where little … more →

Tags: Poetry, Loss, The East, The West, Sadness, Grief, The Matter of Brittain, resolve, Division

Taliessin and the Emperor's Daughter

Justinian wrote 3 years ago: The bells called all to the vesperal mass; Angels and saints and ministers of grace Flood the imperi … more →

Tags: Poetry, Emperor, Wisdom, Religion, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Theotokos, Salvation

Taliessin in the School of Poets6 comments

Justinian wrote 3 years ago: Taliessin studied the exactitude of language; Juxtapositions of verb and clause, (and the philosophe … more →

Tags: Poetry, humanism, Love, The East, Despair, Byzantium, Arthuriana, The Sea

Taliessin's Repentance

Justinian wrote 3 years ago: Through the solemn, eastern door Taliessin rode from Camelot Seeking silence and surcease From the p … more →

Tags: Poetry, The East, Emperor, Religion, God, Jesus Christ, Redemption, Sin, Byzantium


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