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Love Spells
Love Spells

Pass the blade with its secret name

three times round my fecund belly

singing we will love forever

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poetrySerena Constance14 February 2022love, spells, valentine, romance, relationship
Hare
Hare

Hare you are leaping

to the moon

from the golden underground gate,

mummiform woman, Wenut,

tired for a moment of guarding,

watching for the dead to enter here.


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poetry, myth, storytellingSerena Constance19 January 2021hare, hare moon, witch, shapeshifter, poetry, Sussex, storytelling, goddess, magic
Branks
Branks

Has the cat got your tongue?

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Serena Constance8 December 2020
Scorpion Flowered Moon
Scorpion Flowered Moon

the silver in your hair

weaves with the gold on my back,

on this liminal, shifting shoreline

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poetry, mythSerena Constance11 May 2020moon, full, scorpion moon, hare, hare moon, Celtic, myth, mythic, temple, sea witch
Resurgam II - Howling
Resurgam II - Howling

Our urban woolf

is remembering

a time when her cousins

ran in packs

through deep forest

before all the trees

were chopped to make

flat packed furniture

or ships to defeat an armada.

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poetry, storytellingSerena Constance15 March 2020poetry, storytelling, ancestors, swine flu, world war 1, pandemic, wolf
Resurgam I
Resurgam I

Samuel never forgot

the convoy ship

crowded with

a thousand horses.

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Serena Constance21 February 2020
A lock of lost love
A lock of lost love

a Delilah shorn, my hair gone,

yet I have more than the strength you left

in the cleave of your axe

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poetrySerena Constance26 January 2020mythology, past lives, transformation, betrayal, dreaming, dreams
Damp earth
Damp earth

Magdalena, Magdalena 

dance for me

in your scarlet dress

and cinnamon mouth.

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poetrySerena Constance18 December 2019earth, magdalena
Bone dreaming
Bone dreaming

You wear many crowns,
this one is bone gold.

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poetrySerena Constance13 December 2019poetry, mythology, Celtic
Red Bead Speech
Red Bead Speech

Strung together, red pearls

rolled around the cheek with thought,

care and attention.

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poetrySerena Constance8 December 2019Freyja, mythology, poetry, Magic, myth
Flame-haired Firebird
Flame-haired Firebird

Another light, holy neon, would flicker over wet Soho streets above Madame JoJo's  and our dressing rooms

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poetrySerena Constance27 October 2019danxe, Myrh, Firebird, Magic of mamdorla, middle earth medicine, David Bowie, Spho
On Lancing Hill
On Lancing Hill

I hear her song in the wind,

fragile bones

boxed in Worthing,

scratching for reburial

and a new prayer.


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poetrySerena Constance22 September 2019nature, equinox, Mabon, South Downs National Park, Cissbury Ring
The Woodman
The Woodman

Hands that knew how to channel the sap

from fresh wood, as sweet and sticky

as dark forest in the rain.

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poetrySerena Constance27 July 2019nature, past lives, myth, dreaming, forest
Old Souls
Old Souls

The salt spray licked your face

as you sailed in search of

the land which held your fate

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poetrySerena Constance9 July 2019Past Life, Reincarnation, Sailing, Warrior, Magic
On a Strawberry Moon
On a Strawberry Moon

I sang

dragon songs

to raven trees

as blood clouds

lit up the sky.

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poetrySerena Constance17 June 2019Moon, Epona, Celtic, Nature, Ravens, Dragon
Dancing Queens
Dancing Queens

I waltz as a queen,

wearing your cape now,

twirling old apron strings,

like Nana’s ballerina.

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poetrySerena Constance11 June 2019Dancing, Grief, Mother, ABBA, Sweden
Becoming Thirteen
Becoming Thirteen

Jump for joy

and chase the jabberwock

deep into the dark

of the forest

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poetrySerena Constance2 May 2019poetry, dreams, rite of passage
Mountain Dreaming Giant
Mountain Dreaming Giant

No longer does he

hurl rocks

down into the Agean Sea,

sinking ships

before they ever land

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poetrySerena Constance27 April 2019myth, mythology
Worm Moon Dragon
Worm Moon Dragon

I am lizard,

I am snake

I am winged worm

moon mother.

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poetrySerena Constance20 March 2019full moon, dragon, worm moon, Spring
Dreaming in the Dragon's Eye
Dreaming in the Dragon's Eye

My finger of Yod

pointed East

to a land

of winged serpents

grinning

in their song time

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poetrySerena Constance17 March 2019Dragon, Odin, Nidhogg
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