The Container of Abandoned Minds
There is a place
Where standardised thought
Will lead, if you care to go.
Why so few see, where the path leads on
Is hard to say, or know.
Author: Sarah De Nordwall
The Four Winds in Cuatro Vientos – A Haiku Cluster
After experiencing storm Eunice today in England, I happened upon a poem I wrote about another storm I lived through, over a decade ago, in Spain. Interestingly the place happened to be called “Four Winds” in Spanish! But by far the more powerful force was not the extraordinary wind and rain, but the beautiful and transforming…
Finding the Hidden Spring – a Creative Writing Course for Lent starting on Ash Wednesday at 10am
You are so welcome to the Taster Session of our Finding the Hidden Spring this Wednesday at 10am to 11.30am You will amazed what riches you find within you when you pick up a pen with fellow travellers and respond to poems, mystics and Scriptures. Our Zoom ID is 815 4546 3215 See if the…
National Poetry Day celebration on Saturday October 3rd – When Joy Begins
The Bards of the Bard School and friends would love to invite you to their 4th Bardic Mic Night since lockdown… held on zoom, but surprisingly nonetheless soulful and nourishing! The theme of National Poetry Day this year is Vision… Our mic night name comes from a beautiful Jewish prayer that I was taught by…
A listener’s review of audio book
5.0 out of 5 starsBuy it! Read it! Listen to it!! Treasure lies within!!! Format: Audio DownloadVerified Purchase 50 Poems for my 50th – A Beginner’s guide to opening the world with words. “Sarah’s beautiful and transportive audiobook sings in the heart long after listening to it. I find it simultaneously challenges one to think and…
Tell me Something Beautiful about Truth!
Happy National Poetry Day! You are invitedto a show and a challenge on Saturday 5th October 2019 Tell me something beautiful about truth! This year the theme of National Poetry Day is Truth. We are surrounded by different kinds of prophets of doom and catastrophe, division and disaster. So, in the midst of the maelstrom…
A stunning teen book – unlike any other – The Siege of Reginald Hill
Well, I’ve broken my blog silence since National Poetry Day, as I’ve been happily occupied with creative writing projects on a brick brutalist housing estate in Colindale and other contrasting workshop experiences, (such as a gourmet cheese and wine poetry and photography event in Pistachio and Pickle, Islington) to tell you about a book that…
Growing into Old – a poem by my friend Sally Graham
Well, here we are on the eve of National Poetry Day and my friend Sally has just read me a poem she’s written called ‘Growing into Old.’ As Sally is in her 80s, but with more energy than 3 people half her age, I thought it would be a lovely, hopeful poem to put up for…
Poem 17 Katrien is “Falling into Beauty” in South Korea and Beyond
So here’s the next poem from the new audio book – Poem 17 Falling into Beauty. It’s about how we plan the future… or rather, don’t. You can listen here. So where’s the glimmer of safety in the churn? It turns out, that the person who will be commenting on Falling into Beauty, is Katrien, my Belgian…
