
Tag: Poetry


Breath Mantra Meme for the Wounded
Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most effective forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it can escape its own chatter. The Mindful Bard breath mantras can be practised at … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for the Wounded

Poem: The Master of Perfumes
The Master of Perfumes can’t be sighted, But if you head in that direction, neither east nor west, Down that bright hall, And turn when your olfactory sense Alerts you to fragrances like the smell of skies, Scents sweeter than … Continue reading Poem: The Master of Perfumes

Breath Mantra Meme: For Artists
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty’s self and beauty’s giver. from “Golden Echo” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1884-1889 Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most effective forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme: For Artists

Journal Entry: What the Beauty Says
John Everett Millais, Ophelia, c. 1851, oil on canvas, Tate Britain, London When we encounter things or people that remind us that the world is still a haven for evil and ugliness, that it bears the smudge of evils of the … Continue reading Journal Entry: What the Beauty Says