Green and Grey

Willow’s Song

Written in 2013 for Willow.

I know it hurts so much
And I can’t set you free
But I wanted you to know
Just how much you mean to me
So I’m sending you a rainbow
To brighten up your day
Sending you some sunshine
To chase those clouds away
May love and happiness
Always come your way
And may that nasty pain
Find somewhere else to play

Pan Pipes

Dedicated to Jane: may you continue to flourish

Pan pipes on the wind
Calling what ails you back home
Feel the breath in your lungs
Feel the life in your heart
Serpentine kisses down your spine
Wrap your spine with their healing dew
Drip by drip
Let that poison slip
From your view
From all of you
Awake renewed
Awake renewed
You are loved
You are held
Remember we believe in you
We believe in you
Pan pipes on the wind
Calling what ails you back home
Calling what ails you back home

A WildWood Blessing Song

For Mat and others who aspire

May the WildWood answer your heartfelt call
May Brigid’s flame guide and light your path
May Weaver hold you in your darkness
May Green Man shelter you if you lose your way
May the Guardians wrap you in their Arts
May the Watchers protect you all through the night and day
May the Maidens share with you their secrets in every space that you care to go
May Her Thorny Rose hold you in Her wonder and bless your breath your blood and bless your bones
May His Wolf-Fanged Horned Form surround you as you travel your path of pleasure and pain
And May He lead you through your shadows until you are home and you are whole again

Kronos Chant

Tick-tick
Tick-tick
Tick-tick
Hear the clock of Kronos Tick
As we slide through time
Slide through time

Walking With My Shadows

From behind me green eyes sparkle
And he licks his jagged teeth
Starts grabbing at my beating heart
But it is kept out of his reach
For my heart it is well guarded
By her blood red thorny rose
So back into the ethers
His shadowed form does go

As I turn another corner
Of my winding crooked way
A little faun is following me
But he’s being kept at bay
For my Guardian is holding me
In his huge protective arms
And his silken voice keeps telling me
To beware of his charms

My feet they keep on wandering
Through the darkly lit woodlands
Around me eyes are glistening
And making hungry plans
For the light that glows and shows the way
Is a magnet strong and true
Towards it are drawn many things
That would like to hold it to

For without a light a shadow
By the darkness is absorbed
So the hungry eyes keep watching me
And they take their shadowed form
Shrieking cries I hear as music
As I walk my crooked path
And I find that I am singing with them
And share my light of Art

So to me they start their whispering
Of their secrets and of skills
Of ancient deep pooled knowledge
From within these hallowed hills
As I work my Art I see them there
Holding circles guarding ways
They open up such mysteries
And spread them for my gaze

But to think they are all friendly
Would turn me into a feast
The dinner bell would sound aloft
And the hungry ones would eat
So I share my light with kindred
And they protect my fragile form
Together we are stronger than
The chasm, fire, and storm

Always Being Born

For Wendy with love

When my body’s tired
And my soul seems sore
And it feels like I
Can dance no more
And there’s many rugged miles
Just to reach your door
I look within
I look within
And I shed my skin
I shed my skin

I see Venus on the horizon
I sing my soul to ground
Draw down the sparkling starlight
To light me all around
I clothe myself in moonlight
I draw warmth from the dawn
Like the ever-expanding universe
I delight in my new form
Cause Like the ever-expanding universe
I am always being born

Fairytales have Answers

Searching for answers I don’t know
What the questions are
When life is overwhelming me
And where to head is far
Directions spin like children’s toys
I am the dust of stars
Drifting through these endless days
Spreading near and far

My heart is filled with darkness and then
Sudden bursts of light
My arms hold the universe
I sing mist into night
Across the blackened sea me myself I
Sail over the moon
Night may hold eternity
But Dawn comes all too soon

Gather up my ponderings I
Enfold them in my breath
Give them to the winds of fate
My uncertain quest
Dancing on the swirling breeze they
Travel far and wide
While I await here patiently
On this eternal ride

A labyrinth of endless pain
Contains my question mark
Wrapped in soul I feel my way
Fight shadows in the dark
Endless turning pulls me free from
My embodied state
Shattered pieces lie before my
Shining three-fold gate

And when there’s nothing left but echoes
In the screaming winds
Deep waters swirling still
From where I might have been
A pile of scattered blackened ash that’s
Still warm from the spark
I find myself facing me
Reflections in the glass

In my quest for truth and wisdom I hold
Close the central part
That it is the journeying
Connecting mind to heart
I am the brightest flame above
The deepest darkest well
Shining in my loving arms
Myself my answers tell

Fairytales have answers
My fairytales have answers

What is your question?

Heart of Our Dark One

For Aaron (Happy Solstice)

We dance in the woods
To the rhythm of the heart of Our Dark One
Our Bringer of Dreams
Our Raven Queen

Howling our prayers
Into dark skies
We witness Their birth
And their demise

The other way around
The other way around

We raise our heads high
Honour Her new light
Eyes shimmering with
Shards of Her delight

Offerings to ground
Offerings to ground

Laughter tears through
This veil between
Our voices blend
As they weave

Old to Newly Found
Old to Newly Found

We dance in the woods
To the rhythm of the heart of Our Dark One
Our Bringer of Dreams
Our Raven Queen

My Requiem and I

A solstice song

My Requiem and I
Walked a crooked path
By and by
By and by
And as we walked along
We thought we heard a laugh
By and by
By and by
My Requiem and I
Followed this silver song
By and by
By and by
And like a river’s tide
It pulled us along
By and by
By and by
My Requiem and I
Came across a tree
By and by
By and by
There we left a kiss of gold
From the Honey Bee
By and by
By and by
My Requiem and I
Solstice Blessings bade
By and by
By and by
May the coming year ahead
Be sweet and joyous made
By and by
By and by
My Requiem and I
Walked a crooked path
By and by
By and by
And as we walked along
We thought we heard a laugh
By and by
By and by

About the song

Spiral Bound

A spell crafting song and seal –
to be sung three times while spiraling around a tree – each time slightly faster than the last. The seal to be sung three times before slapping the blood into the sigil and sealing the spell.

As I dance beneath this tree
Around and around spiral bound

In my head a picture see
Around and around spiral bound

In my hand a needle thick
Around and around spiral bound

From my thumb some blood I prick
Around and around spiral bound

Trace my sigil on this bark
Around and around spiral bound

Place my will into this arc
Around and around spiral bound

By three times three
By land, sky and sea
By black, white and red
I seal this thread