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Hello and welcome back to Holding Heaven, dancing angels and all. It’s been a funny old week…month…year, hasn’t it? Not …
Taking Time Out to Wonder
Holding Heaven was inspired by those famous opening words from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence. It’s a space where I try to reflect on the world as I see it: through creativity, pilgrimage, music, poetry, prose, prayer and just a little procrastination.
Hello and welcome back to Holding Heaven, dancing angels and all. It’s been a funny old week…month…year, hasn’t it? Not …
Favourite hits? Easy. But suppose you were asked to list the music that speaks of the ups and downs, the …
Yes – I know Advent, Christmas and Epiphany are long gone and Lent is approaching . Rather late to be …
Advent drawing near But this year dreaded haiku Will be replaced by…? Welcome back after the longest coffee break imaginable. …
‘Our optional daily prompt, once again pulled from our archives. Today’s prompt is a poem of negation – yes (or …
This is Just to Say… I have deleted the poem that was on your laptop and which you were probably …
Poem following the beat of a joke. Not my best effort! Where do poets buy their pens? From I.A.M. Bic …
‘And now for another (optional) prompt from our archives. Today, I challenge you to write a poem that addresses itself …
‘And finally, our (optional) prompt for the day. This prompt challenges you to play around with the idea of overheard …
Yo-ho=ho! What a relief to have a day off from entrail -gazing. Trying my hand at writing a sea shanty …
So to Easter, where I celebrated by trying to channel my inner Shakespeare. Yes, I’ll confess to managing yet another …
Time, no time, (not) forced time of rest between two states of being. Metamorphosis of grief, Biological? Metaphorical? Transformational?