• Tony Atkinson commented on the blog post <> 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    the second piece i wrote tonight at Kali’s “Writing with the Awen” group. It is amazing how people can inspire, and connect with, each other, especially once “the channels are open”!

  • Tony Atkinson wrote a new blog post: <> 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    Taut tomes And vociferous volumes; Tall tales And magnificent epistles. Each story unfolds Both to the teller And the recipient In so many differing ways And often, That which may appear the same Is so manifold in its manifestations We would wonder We were even on the same page… Yet somehow, undercurrents of sense And [...]

  • Tony Atkinson commented on the blog post <> 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    the first of two pieces i wrote this evening at Kali’s new group “Writing with the Awen”. it was a creative evening in the Library of Avalon and i would recommend it to people who couldn’t make it to join next time. Well done Kali!

  • Tony Atkinson wrote a new blog post: <> 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    Spirits of all ancestors Close kin and random impostors Draw me in with bidding words That i may see birds’ wings unfurl With grace and without recourse To pleasing others’ feasts or thoughts The freedom of abandonment No more entrapped, soon resonant With all the music of their song And rhythmic wings to time the [...]

  • Tony Atkinson posted a new activity comment: 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    In reply to: tim hall posted an update: Is anyone interested in meeting up around the quarters & cross-quarters? Please send me a message if you will be around for Lughnasadh and want to do something. The summer season is […] View

    hey tim, i’d be up for that

  • Tony Atkinson wrote a new blog post: <> 11 months, 1 week ago

    Mind You don’t hurt it By doing in your brain Lessed you should stress Over   Slow-ing Flowing flowing S-low-ing Flowingflowingflowing Sl…   Owing For all your life Someone, something, summing Up whole selves till (nothing)   Gro-Wing Showing sHOWing GRRRR-Owing! SHOWING! SHOWING! SHOWING! (Shh)…   Over And above duty When ALL has become STILL…[Read more]

  • Tony Atkinson wrote a new blog post: <> 11 months, 2 weeks ago

    These are the lyrics to the song “Twilight Zone” which we played at the Gorsedh Final night. It is about how, as children, we think we can communicate telepathically with our closest friends and/or loved ones. Do we unlearn this sort of ability or did we never really have it in the first place? I [...]

    • I think mostly it’s bullied out of us. Some are lucky and don’t lose the ability. Others rediscover it out of need / survival. I think most people have this ability but we are often conned into believing it is merely a childish fantasy.

  • Tony Atkinson commented on the blog post <> 11 months, 2 weeks ago

    thanks amber. it was great having five acoustic guitars to back me! phil came in with ten minutes practice, he is a natural…it was memorable as well to have my old friend andy there, we haven’t played together for about 20 years and twilight zone was a song we wrote together (my words & melody, [...]

  • Tony Atkinson posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 2 weeks ago

    In reply to: Tony Atkinson posted an update: i am thrilled to see something really happening here and also underlining what i said at both the Trials and Final…there is a dearth of unique and disparate talent in the order and […] View

    you should have shown em to the check-in!

  • Tony Atkinson posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 2 weeks ago

    In reply to: Tony Atkinson posted an update: i am thrilled to see something really happening here and also underlining what i said at both the Trials and Final…there is a dearth of unique and disparate talent in the order and […] View

    oh dear, how did wealth become dearth?! i really DID mean wealth but like ronnie barker i keep mixing my worms up!

  • i am thrilled to see something really happening here and also underlining what i said at both the Trials and Final…there is a dearth of unique and disparate talent in the order and a growing energy especially since Tim got this up and running. it would be good if all those initiated into the order since the start had an opportunity to be part of this

    • I don’t think you mean ’dearth’ in this context surely?
      I have sent out invites to everyone who I have an email or facebook contact for. Not everyone has taken up the offer. I guess it might be worth sending out reminders. ?

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    • oh dear, how did wealth become dearth?! i really DID mean wealth but like ronnie barker i keep mixing my worms up!

  • i love the lyricality of this & to me, this is both Bardic and suggestive of “the old country” without being overly Celtic in references…(discuss)!

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