Imbolc and Lughnasadh Blessings!

Blessings of the Season! Wishing all those in the Northern Hemisphere Imbolc inspiration and hope, and all those in the Southern Hemisphere a bountiful and blessed harvest. Here is a beautiful poem by OBOD member Vanessa Fielding…

In Bride’s Wood

This hazel wand

            once scattered gold

follow her trail

The deer have passed before you

through the holy wood

rising at dawn from hollow beds, to browse

the secret sacrament of bark and bud

gentle mystics sipping the soft wind

dipping in silence to the greening earth

Kneel then

before the twisted alder rood 

black against crimson light, amongst

the frail stemmed snowdrop flowers

opening pale wings of green and white

to scent the morning woods

with fragile life

~ Vanessa Fielding