Coracle Trust E-Reflections
Our E-reflections are word and image based meditations expressing Coracle's desire to foster reflective practice in a daily life often mobbed with urgent and demanding voices:
Marking the Way
A need for inns on roads, islands in seas,
Halts for discoveries to be shared,
Maps checked, notes compared;
A need, at times, of each for each,
Direct as the need of throat and tongue for speech.
Not Love Perhaps, ASJ Tessimond
You are lovely
The bud
stands for all things,
even those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness.
Beauty and the obscured image
There was a time when meadow, grove and stream,
The earth and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and freshness of a dream.
Pursued by symbols
He called a little child and had him stand among them.
And he said: ‘I tell you the truth,
unless you change and become like little children,
you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.’
Journeying with Innocence and Imagination
As a child I imagined the life beyond this life
as one enormous room, all mist and kinship,
now I would have to insist on walls and factions,
hidden compartments, corridors leading off
to secret gardens seeped in changing light
John Burnside, Retractationes from Gift Songs
I’m not finished with my changes
In that first hardly noticed moment to which you wake,
coming back to this life from the other
more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world
where everything began,
there is a small opening into the new day
which closes the moment you begin your plans.