I want to tell u what
witches took on a more ceremonial role
Tonight as the barrier between the two realms grows thin,
which bumblebees still are sipping honey. The assignment of yellow is taken up now
Then you experience the miracle
of entering into yourself like a diamond
in glass, enjoying its own fragility
when the storm carries everything else away
Henrik Nordbrandt
Rachel Peden Canuckville Akasha
ours
is the work of hope and is always thrilling."
- May Sarton
In the gay woods and in the golden air,
William Cullen briant
although sadly such matters often give rise to strife.... The apple fairy invites us to enjoy sensuous pleasures of all descriptions, in the knowledge that there is plenty to go around, and that nothing that is truly ours can ever be taken away from us."
(Teresa Moorey, The Fairy Bible)
we wake one morning and woods are like a smoldering
plain --
(Margaret Walker)
I have a kind of halloween mask Which I am afraid to put on."
- Charles Simic, Empire of Dreams
I was going to attend the ball of ghosts and witches.
A delegation would appear there in masks and wigs,
And dance, unrecognized, in the chorus of the living"
- Czeslaw Milosz, All Hallow's Eve
my whole self
saying and singing what it knew: I can."
- Denise Levertov, Variation on a Theme by Rilke

















