Tuesday thoughts...

I've just finished this book, and I'm pondering much in my journal... working out what's evolving in my own spirituality...

Nimue's quite a writer. Here's a sample of her poetry from Beyond the Map - all I can say is WOW!!

Onion Woman

Asked once in play

My totem vegetable

I said onion.

The layers are pulled

Skin long since gone

Now flesh follows.

Circles of my life

Rings I’d created

Dared to cherish.

Another layer prised

Forced from me

Discarded.

How big am I?

Are there skins enough

To weather this?

Will I be stripped

And torn away

Into non-existence?

Today’s peeling

Leaves me soul naked

Yesterday’s too much.

Tomorrow or tomorrow

They find the heart

And still it.

The layers of giving

Are gone

Circles of trust.

Hope peeled off

Belief with it

Confidence shredded.

Bring your knives

All are welcome

None refused.

This I deserve

For my onion nature

Makes people cry.

Nimue Brown

(shared with permission)