Quiet

I am finding my way in spiritual terms, and I am not currently in "blogging about it" mode.

Starting to explore the site: www.buddhanet.net, as well as various other spiritual websites, including many personal blogs on spiritual themes.  More links can be found on: http://paulapuddephatt.tripod.com. 

I wrote a short poem, in the build up to this year's Winter Solstice.  I just posted it on: www.paulapoems.blogspot.com.  It also appears on: http://paulapuddephatt.tripod.com/poetry and I posted it on Tumblr.  It was written spontaneously, and didn't go through any real editing process.  It expresses deep emotions, a sense of spirituality, a moment captured - was written in a morning after very little sleep.  I feel that the poem refers to my feelings about the moon goddess Rhiannon.  I have talked about Rhiannon in previous blog posts.

That is all for now.  Blessed be. xxx

Been working on my new blog!

I now have a poetry blog at: www.paulapoems.blogspot.com, in addition to my poetry website at: http://paulapuddephatt.tripod.com/poetry.  There are Pros and Cons of using a Tripod free site vs using a blog, and I figure that I am better off using both, so that I benefit from the positive aspects of each method and hopefully reach more readers.

Poetry helps me so much.  It sounds OTT to say that poetry has saved my life at times, but I truly believe that it has.  Poetry - like all art forms, and all that is beautiful in this life - is a gift from The Divine - from the gods and goddesses.

Blessed be. x

Correction!

www.paulapoems.blogspot.com is the URL!!!!!! xxx

Finally!

I am starting work on my poetry blog (after many false starts!)  Please check out: www.paulapoem.blogspot.com.  There is only one poem on the new blog right now, but it's a start - and now that my NetBook is up and running, in addition to Colin's and my PC, internet access should be easier!!!

Also, don't forget to check out my Tripod poetry site: http://paulapuddephatt.tripod.com/poetry, which I regularly update.

Blessings to you all! xxx

Blogspot/blogger poetry blog

I've not been updating the above mentioned site.  I was intending to do something a little more involved with this blog, going into the meanings of, and reasons for writing, some of my poems.  However, I never get around to doing this.  I've only ever put up one poem!  I am wondering if I shouldn't just change it into a regular poetry blog.  It would then involve less work, and I wouldn't neglect it as much.  It would be another way in which to share my poems - and another place to store them, in case Tripod ever decide to take down my websites overnight, which they could do at any time.  (They are only freebie sites, so they don't owe me anything - although they do all right out of the deal, with all the ads they put on my pages - wish that they'd ease up on the dating site variety!)

We'll see how it goes, but I think that's the way I'll go with it...

URL for the other blog: http://www.pinklit.blogspot.com/.  Watch this space???

Difficult times...

Yet, I have felt the goddess Rhiannon's powerful influence, and received her blessings, in my life.

I have started to use my Oracle cards again, with positive and beautiful results.

Please see my other blog: http://www.paulap.blog.com/.  I updated this yesterday.  Please also check out my poetry site, which I have been updating again: http://paulapuddephatt.tripod.com/poetry.

Blessed be. x

Spiritual poems

I am starting to go back to some of my poems, many of which had spiritual themes, written in 2007/08 (approx.) and discarded, for various reasons.  Some I now feel able to read again, honour, edit a little, and revive. :-)

Rest in peace, Raz budgie and Kit the zebra finch.

I'm sad to say that we lost Raz budgie a week ago, and one of our zebra finches, Kit, yesterday.

I copied this from my other blog (http://www.paulap.blog.com/):

This morning (a week since Raz passed), I heard from our grey budgie, Bert, who passed away in December 2008.  Bert appeared by my bed in a dream, just before I woke up.  I have heard from Bert before since his death.  Raz was also grey, but very different to Bert - much smaller, with black markings and a pale yellow face.  After we lost Bert, I always knew that another grey budgie would come into our lives but that he wouldn't look like Bert, or Silver (a budgie whom my parents inherited from my late nan), or a grey budgie who a lady bought for her son in a pet shop on the day we bought Nephi, Lehi, Robin and Vernon finches (which also ended up being the day before we lost our beloved lineolated parakeet, Pear).  

I know that it is lazy to copy a whole paragraph from one blog to the other, but I didn't want to have to struggle for the words all over again.  In fact, there are so many aspects to the all of the stories connected with our birds - and I don't think that I've done a great job of explaining.  It reads quite badly, in my own, self-critical opinion - but it will have to do for now.

I updated my poetry site: http://paulapuddephatt.tripod.com/poetry.

More from me soon, hopefully...x

Poetry and my past

A while ago, I started writing this long, rambling confessional poem - about stuff that happened in my life twenty years ago - and I went back to it yesterday, but it hurt so much.  I had to hear "End of the World" again - and "Foolish Beat", although I listen to Deborah Gibson regularly anyway, so have kept listening to that.  I can't explain the significance of the songs, not without opening the whole thing up again, and I'm not ready.  I'm going to come back to the poem.  I know my limits. 

Anyway, I've shared the two videos on this blog.  I don't know if I should be sharing music on my blog, as I'm not sure if there is any sort of maximum on megabites, etc - but I wouldn't have thought so - and I really needed to do this.  I don't think that my old Sonia tape - if I could find it at all - even plays anymore - so really You Tube was my best bet for listening to the song.  I know that "End of the World" is a cover, and probably will listen to the original as well at some point, which I expect is technically better - but sometimes you really need to hear the version of a song that is familiar to you, and unlocks your own memories.  If it happens to be "rubbish pop" then so be it.

I don't know if this is exactly the type of post that I had intended to include on my "Quagan Poet" blog - probably not - but life and emotions just happen, I guess.

I had a dream the night before I started to write the poem again, and it all ties in with that part of my life.  The pain is so deep and overwhelming.  There have been too many issues and emotions which I haven't addressed.

That's all for now.  Love to you all, and thank you for reading this. xxx

Poetry

This is one of my recent poems.  I am partly including it on this blog so that I can see if poetry displays properly on Blogger/Blogspot sites.  I had problems in this respect on Blog.com, in that the software couldn't deal with stanza breaks! 

Anyway, if poetry does display properly on this blog then I might start up a new poetry blog here, in addition to my Tripod poetry site - http://paulapuddephatt.tripod.com/poetry.  I'm always looking for alternative ways in which to share my work, and there have been indications that Tripod may not always offer their current web-building facility for free customers.  And I can't afford to pay for web space!!!

Anyway, here it is:

Why Can’t We?

Why can’t we all just get along?

Why can’t we all be friends?

I heard the line “Thou shalt not kill” –

not, “Oh well, it depends…”

I’m sick of funding pointless wars

until this country’s broke,

and can’t afford an NHS

that works.  What kind of joke

is this supposed to be, and must

we blow The Planet up to

test out which, if any,

religious text is true?