How do we view our environment and what is it anyway? Here you will find Articles and information looking at how we relate to our environment and why we should care about it.
What links Druidry and Environment? by Emma Restall Orr
Ecotherapy article by Graham Braveheart
Urban Spirits article by Nick Griffiths-Haynes
Photo: Willowleaves by Red.
Small Offerings
By Bryn Colvin
Soft caress of whispering air,
Hush over skin like the gentle exhale,
Of newborn breath, turning feather light,
Drying, hollowing and scattering.
Bird kin, swirling scavengers descend,
Tearing at air-buried offerings,
Casting remnants to the four winds.
There will be no waste.
Purification in the brilliant rush,
That purges holy and heretic alike,
Racing power, flickering bright.
Creation and unmaking in a flash,
Consuming all, hungry ever.
Smouldering through pure gifts,
Leaving anonymous dust,
All things become as one.
The long, slow descent: waterbound,
Lost traveller on a final journey,
To forgotten ancestors of a first sea.
Swelling, bloating as fluids mingle,
That which is free rejoices,
A mere drop in the ocean,
In wave, ripple and rising mist,
True cleanliness waits here.
Lowered into the close embrace,
Of the first and last mother,
Heavy, dank and welcoming,
Teeming with unending life,
A thousand mouths and roots to feed,
Digesting grave offerings,
Returning the clay to the clay,
A final resting place.
Four paths to the setting sun,
Four means to a tranquil passing.
Four ways to leave no evidence.
Four roads on a new journey.
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