A great Soul has passed. Here is a beautiful reading of the Song of Wandering Aengus by W.B Yeats read by Michael Gambon.
Friday 29 September 2023
Thursday 21 September 2023
Writing resources
Summer over and it's time to get down to submitting material to publishers. It's really hard to know how to go about this at the best of times but I came across a useful resource list which you may find helpful too.
https://angelatcarr.wordpress.com/
Photos of Lucca
https://www.discovertuscany.com/lucca/
Wednesday 20 September 2023
Catureglio, Tuscany, Italy
It would have been a pity to miss all this:
cypress topping Terracotta roofs,
going astray in a tangle of olive grove
lizard and agrimony underfoot
and hedge parsley and hartwort
butterflies skimming your lens.
And higher up, frescoed on the chapel roof,
the Virgin Mother radiating benevolence as she ascends into Heaven
And, beyond her, a soul sister of our very own Sile Na Gig
spouting blessings from a mossy fountain shrine
And under a hedge, facing forward and head intact,
a Child of Prague and a plea to heaven for a rainless wedding day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascaron_(architecture)
Copyright 2023 Cathy Leonard All rights reserved
Tuesday 19 September 2023
A Wedding Prayer
The
Gathering
for Teresa and Rebecca and Sarah
On an
Italian hillside they gathered
the scent
of lemon, the brush of olive branch
the sound
of cicada ringing the air.
He had
flown over a thousand miles to be there,
to be
placed under a laurel hedge
to be petitioned as a century before
at a grandmother’s wedding
and at a
mother’s wedding, decades later.
And so they
gathered again, this third generation of women,
to ask for
fair weather, fair wind and a rainless day
in the
shadow of the Apennines, in the dusk, under a Tuscan sky.
Copyright 2017 Cathy Leonard All rights reserved
Background to the tradition of The Child of Prague statue
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