witches season, poetic reason

It’s October 21st, which means there’s only one month until mistYmuse (Most Ideal Sunrise Time – Midwinter Until Spring Equinox; mYm acronym!) 20/21. This week is False Dawn Week, with sunrises getting to their latest before clocks go back an hour on Sunday in the UK; ending British Summer Time (BST).

MYMORY PRELIMINARY

There was a nice sunrise over Leeds on Monday, just north of the Town Hall on the horizon.

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This morning I wrote this little poem. It started off spontaneously, then about half way down I thought its Earth’s north and south hemispheres subject matter made it ideal for a Folding Mirror Poem: the original inspiration for this blog site.

From Sun’s Face, Out Into Space

As planet’s north
points to space
no longer fronting
our star’s fiery face

we remember turn, circling as one

the heat will weaken
but light beacon
will remain alight
beyond winter night

Searching for my book again on Amazon and seeing its 2012 date made me think that some of the poems in there must have been written a decade ago now, and searching on this site’s October 2010 section took me back to that time; in this season of reminiscing.

One poem is about becoming middle-aged, for those who think I try to act too young! Others are more experimental, in a time I remember as very creatively exciting, with blogging and science converging to create lots of subject matter and a place to easily publish it.

Nostradamus Extra: French Terrorist Attack New ‘Coincidence’?

At about the time I was writing yesterday’s blog post there was a deadly terrorist attack in France by a Sudanese immigrant, that is probably Islamist inspired. Using Nostradamus-supporters logic, they could be considered linked, as Nostradamus was French, and I was writing about Covid-19 taking the place of terrorism to make my nightmares come true!

Kill the Messenger!

My ‘negatives’ (many of them right-wing!) would probably blame me (kill the messenger!; as many have died in the name of witchery in the past – seriously discussed by me in support of the innocent in XaW Files: Beyond Humanity), but there were no visitors from France to this blog yesterday according to the statistics, so unless the attacker was unconsciously motivated by me (even though I didn’t want it!) it was another circumstantial coincidence.

My book sales don’t seem to suggest I have any influence at all, but my ‘negatives’ seem to think I’m all powerful!!

Nightmares Come True

More generally, and perhaps a possibility, I could link yesterday’s terrorist attack with the current big death count and empty streets from Covid-19 for my partly nightmarish doom-mongering over the last twenty years: which has completely changed my life and mindset.

It’s all interweaved with real events already taking place though, and that have taken place since, but on a smaller scale in the UK, bigger in Europe; since 9/11, which when I watched it after returning from university at about 10/11pm and seeing it on the news seemed like a nightmare materialising; an experience many are supposed to have shared; but I hadn’t had any thought of it happening before –  to look at the news on the computer I was using for example.

The Covid-19 death toll has made the IS attacks seem minor in comparison, and I thought would have demoralised their efforts to destroy Europe, but some of their supporters seem to feel the need to kill a few more!

Poem Celebrating Halloween Horrors of Humanity

Marc Latham’s latest Folding Mirror poem celebrates Halloween, which is known as the Day of the Dead in some countries. Inspired by the weakening sun in the northern hemisphere, as our planet’s tilt switches to favouring the southern hemisphere, old traditions thought the boundaries between the living and spirit worlds were at their lowest.

Humanity is the Destroyer of Life

The Halloween tradition has evolved to portray fictional creatures such as vampires and werewolves as the monsters of the night time world. In reality it is humanity that causes nearly all the problems at all times on our planet; both for  humanity and other life.

While sometimes it is real life psychopaths, like the Halloween movie‘s Michael Myers, most of the world’s problems are caused by normal humanity, and its incessant desire to expand and control, killing and destroying everything in its wake.

The Banality of Evil

Individual humans are usually unconscious of their actions, simply living to the norms of their society. Sometimes the norms of society support some pretty gruesome behaviour; which looks like pretty similar to what the monsters do in horror films.

More humanity means more horror. As Francis Coppola and John Milius‘s Colonel Kurtz exclaimed in Apocalypse Now at the end of his lifetime in humanity: ‘The horror… the horror… the horror…’

ezimba-web- Shapes 3D Folded Mirror Pop Art (Photo credit: krossbow)

Defenders of Nature, Demonised as Witches

catch a falling star
transform it nuclear
capture the rainbow
mine every ounce glow
hunt sweet shaped cloud
sow together Earth’s shroud

humanity radiates acid rain, ancients interpreted to explain

fall of humanity continues
overseen by wise retinues
loving their lowest hour
protected by power
Big Bang reverse
one god no universe

dominion building (Photo credit: AЯMEN)

Marc Latham’s central site is the Greenygrey (http://www.greenygrey.co.uk), and he has books available on Smashwords and Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/author/marclatham).