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Saraphir Camille

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Singer songwriter, poet, writer 🎵📝 Earth lover 🌍 diversity advocate ✨ Urban gardener 👩‍🌾 Nature 📷 Danish Scot 🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://linktr.ee/Saraphircamille

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 25d

I wrote this when I was feeling the weight of everything that's wrong in the world. How do we hold awareness of all the suffering without letting it drown us? I realised maybe the answer is focusing on love, not on our happiness. They are definitely not the same thing.
💔❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥
#chooselove #poetry

We Must by Saraphir Camille Legind
We cannot
we cannot be
we cannot be happy
should not be
should not be able
when there is so much
suffering.
When the world is on fire.
When people starve.
When nations are bombed.
When innocents die in war.
When children are murdered.
When there is so much
antagonism
against difference.
When there is so much hate
so much hate.
And yet
we must
we must be
we must be able
to still love.
Or else the world will drown
in suffering

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote this poem, 'Finally', over three years ago as an acknowledgement of my own journey. I think it is finally time to share it. It still resonates and is a constant reminder to never give up following your dreams. Let me know if it resonates with you too! 🙏

#spokenword #poetry #poetryreading

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 4d

I'm really delighted that my poem 'Leaving' is the Friday Feature with Thistle And Thread Press!
You can read it on their website:

thistleandthread.org/friday-featu...

#poetry #poetryfeature

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 6d

Trees I meet on walks.
I get to know their seasons
if I really see.

#haiku #naturehaiku #treelover #treephotography #treepoetry

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote this poem over three years ago.
It's about the very real phenomenon
of lost cables.
It really did happen.
It's meant to be funny.
Maybe I think it's funnier
than it really is. 🤔🙄

#poetryreading #spokenword #poetry #funnypoem

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 9d

It was so lovely playing at the Halloween event hosted by Transition Edinburgh South yesterday. The weather was a bit on-off rain, but it wasn't super cold and it was great to see the people I usually hang out with in the garden.

#singersongwriter #communitygarden #edinburghmusicscene

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 12d

New poem about October...
🍃🍂🍁

#october #autumnpoetry #poem #naturepoetry #naturephotography #autumnleaves

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote a part two to my "I AM AN IMMIGRANT" poem from a couple of years ago. A bit more of a 👊 this time, but sometimes that is needed.

#iamanimmigrant #poem #poetrycommunity #politicalpoetry #immigration

I AM AN IMMIGRANT II

I am an immigrant.
But I am white
blue-eyed
Scandi.
So I am ‘acceptable’
even though I
take a job
buy a home
have received a few benefits
- but paid more tax.
I am glad
of course
to blend in enough
to not threaten the tribe.
But really
the only thing
that makes me
‘acceptable’
is racism.
© Saraphir Camille Legind

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks! 🙏

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 20d

Happy International Stammering Awareness Day. This is my contribution this year. There are many things misconceptions about stammering out there still, the notion that it can be overcome is a big one and it's very damaging. Just don't say it.
🙏✊ #stutteringawareness #disabilitypride #stammering

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 21d

First 100 days of learning Italian done!
😇🤓🇮🇹
#duolingo #italianlessons #languagelearner

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 23d

Morning sunrise walk.
Light creeps from the horizon,
radiant hedgerow.

#sunrise #autumnmorning #autumn #naturephotography

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 25d

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 26d

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Oct. 16~ SARAPHIR CAMILLE LEGIND

Poetry fans, this Thursday's feature is Scottish poet, Saraphir Camille Legind. I am so pleased to share her two beautiful poems, Ajar and A Burning. Thank you, Saraphir, for sharing your work with...

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 26d

I'm chuffed to bits to have two of my poems featured in the online series of @shinepoetry.bsky.social. Link is in comments. Thanks Samantha!

SHINE Poetry @shinepoetry.bsky.social · 26d

SPOTLIGHT ON...Saraphir Camille Legind:
samanthaterrell.weebly.com/shine-poetry...

#shinepoetry
#poetrylovers
#internationalcommunity

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 26d

In my other life I do crochet design and make the ❄️❄️❄️ for sale. They're really easy to send as gifts as they come in a biodegradable bag that fits snugly into a card... 🩵

Saraphir Designs @saraphirdesigns.bsky.social · 26d

It's that time of year where I stock up my Etsy Shop and try to get people to plan for Christmas waaay before they really want to... but snowflakes are really not just for Christmas, are they? All these are available now.
❄️
#crochetsnowflake #christmasdecor #rainbowchristmas #etsyuk #crochetdecor

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · Oct 11

‘It’s the steps themselves that make the path, instead of the other way round. We are creating even as we believe we are following.’
— Emma Törzs
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Oct 11

At last. After months
of flowers hugging the light
it's our turn to shine.
🍃🍂🍁
#haiku #naturehaiku #autumnleaves #naturephotography #naturepoetry #poetryart

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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social · Oct 7

all day at the beach
no shirt no shoes no service
no worries either

#haiku #senryu

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Oct 7

Autumn frames itself
better than anyone else.
Look deeply, it speaks.

#haiku #naturehaiku #autumntrees #naturephotography #poetrycommunity

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Oct 3

It's #bandcampfriday today and here's a wee reminder that you can still listen to and buy both physical and digital copies of my EP 'Getting Real' that came out almost 3 years ago. Link is in the linktree in my profile. Come on, make it real!
#bandcamp #singersongwriter #musiclover #edinburghmusic

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Oct 2

My take on the superpower thing from 3 1/2 years ago. I stammered since I was a child and worked to live with it well for the last 3 decades. If you love it it becomes a source of strength, and both it and you transform.  🐦‍🔥🦸‍♀️ #superpower #stammering #stuttering #disabilityawareness #poetrycommunity

What is your superpower?
Mine is I mash up words -
sometimes whole sentences too;
I'm so good at it words form a queue.

What is your superpower?
Mine is I show my vulnerability,
sometimes shove it right in your ear.
Just be aware, things aren't always as they appear.

What is your superpower?
Mine is I help people grow.
By meeting what is different to ourselves
we grow beyond what we already know.

What is your superpower?
Mine is I allow others to be free;
by showing our differences openly
we help everyone claim their humanity.

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Sep 28

Thanks! 🙏🙏🙏

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Sep 28

Wee practice the other weekend and the first part of 'Baby Can I Hold You' by the one and only Tracy Chapman. Have played it forever and never tire of it! My voice is getting almost back to normal - or it was, before I got this bad cold!
#singersongwriter #coversong #tracychapman #alternativefolk

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Sep 28

Morning coffee tastes better from a handmade coffee cup. This one is made by Sharon who attends The Columcille, a day service in Edinburgh for adults with support needs. I'm lucky to teach movement there and bagged this treasure yesterday at the autumn fair. #handmade #pottery #morningcoffee

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Sep 24

OCEAN HEART (2006)

My heart is an ocean
with differing depths
canyons, reefs and magnificent structures.
Mountains stretching towards the light
and bottomless pits
all teeming with life.
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New (old) poem on my website... read more on:
saraphircamille.com/ocean-heart/
#poem #poetrycommunity