power, protection small white beaded doeskin bag raven medicine
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I didn't notice the raven in that pretty tree photo until I read your poem. Lovely back to nature, sparse, but powerful, take on this prompt. My eyes keep roving back to it and especially "raven medicine."
The Cloud Messenger (Meghadūta) is a lyric poem by the respected Indian poet, Kālidāsa. The poem centers around a yaksa in exile. Longing for his beloved, waiting for him on a Himalayan mountain, he asks a cloud to take a message to her. The sights he tells the cloud it will see on its way make up most of the poem.
The idea of recording observations appeals to me. I thought The Cloud Messenger was the perfect title for a blog about the journey that we all make as we move through our days.
I'm a baby boomer who grew up dancing in the streets of Detroit during the classic Motown years, lived beside the Rocky Mountains for many years, now retired and living (and writing full time) in S. Ontario. I have one blog for rock 'n' roll oldies, and one for nature, poetry and life along the Lake.
22 comments:
gosh, do I love the simplicity of this poem.
Thanks for it...
Ah, the medicine bag offers a marvellous spiritual skin.
Nicely written.
speciation
lone crow's a raven
flock of ravens simply crows:
cladistics gone wry
simple but effective
ah. lovely.
I love it! The bag is a part of the medicine! All aspects are connected.
Beautiful words...and lovely photo!
A very good take on the prompt.
skin is important and functional!
I like that one a lot. It suits the photo very well.
Yes! Our son has one of these given to him at his birth...
Very clear, lovely, profound.
Simple, beautiful and brilliant.
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Hi Sandy,
I didn't notice the raven in that pretty tree photo until I read your poem. Lovely back to nature, sparse, but powerful, take on this prompt. My eyes keep roving back to it and especially "raven medicine."
I love this - takes me into a past world - the tokens of love and healing.
Now, I didn't think of this, but I really like it, and think I might need one.
..fascinating..
Very evocative, haunting.
Like the simplistic way of it...
frenzied entropies
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perfectly cast in words the song of a raven...
Excellent! Wonderful words and image. Peace, JP/deb
An interesting take on the prompt.
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