by Orna Ross | Nov 11, 2018 | Poetry |
Every spiritual tradition has writings and teachings about what Christians call… The dark night of the soul. It's understood to be a necessary pre-cursor to receiving the light of redemption. That’s not how it feels while you’re there, though. Dark times are...
by Orna Ross | Oct 28, 2018 | Poetry |
Each Sunday I publish a poem about some aspect of creative working and living. This week’s inspirational poem: “Good Coffee” is about a woman I saw at a table outside a local cafe. First, my eye was drawn by her tremors, a feature of her age, then what I...
by Orna Ross | Oct 21, 2018 | Poetry |
Each Sunday I publish a poem about some aspect of creative working and living. This week's inspirational poem: Renovation is about a job we're getting done on our house at the moment. Such a mundane and practical topic but poetry finds that there's always more going...
by Orna Ross | Aug 19, 2018 | Poetry |
“‘Thou Shalt Not’ soon fades but ‘Once Upon A Time’ goes on forever.” ~ Philip Pullman. Morning, May in England, Ascot Priory wood. In a clearing by the pathway, a branch invites a bow. I lay my forehead on its bark, its skin on mine is cool with rain. These...
by Orna Ross | Jul 29, 2018 | Poetry |
Today's Sunday Inspirational Poetry is: Placenta Look to the tree, how it remembers the clay that once pressed, loam-loving, round its kernel through which it roamed out, a tender and unseeing shoot, groping towards the light of day and the airy, spangled light of...