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Bua Beltane Boy - Tending a May Birth-Death-Day

When the summer is bursting through in all its fine greenery, and traditional May Day festival rites are kept to welcome in the luscious fertility of this time, I am keeping a lament, for this is the time that I gave birth to death instead of new life

pilgrimage, mythology, storytellling, death doulaSerena Constance2 May 2022May Day, Birth, death, Beltane, grief, death doula, utiseta, South Downs, Sussex, Irish myths, Poetry

Red Bead Speech I - Red Bead Woman

Young woman, you pulled up your roots,

to plant yourself in the land

of spice and lava

where shadow puppets speak

in strange tongues

articles, mythology, memorySerena Constance7 June 2020Msmyth, mythology, school of myth, Red Bead Speech, Red Bead Woman, Voice, Poetry, Story