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Solivagant Wisdom: Slow Living for Quiet Souls

Solivagant Wisdom: Slow Living for Quiet Souls

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Solivagant's #workshops, #retreats & #hypnocoaching are designed to nurture the innate #giftedness and #wisdom of #introversion, #solitude, #highsensitivity & #neurodivergence.

Solivagant Wisdom adheres to the principles of #slowliving and #slowculture #quiet

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#Ychromosome #Aaron as #NorthStar

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#poetry #CassElliot #Kleos #Nostos #BorisPasternak #Spock #StarTrek #Shekhinah #LeonardCohen

Amok Time

Raised hand,
Palm forward,
Thumb extended,
Fingers parted between
Ring and Middle.

Live Long and Prosper:
Practiced gesture that
Pits dexterity – manual,
Moral – against the
Innate intensity of
Vulcan-human emotion,
Mastered, corralled for the
Good of the species.

Spock melts down,
Must mate or die – Pon Farr.
Enterprise changes course for
Vulcan Ithaca. Spock,
Stranger to himself at home,
Debuts the Salutation in
Amok Time, second-season
Premiere.

Birkat Kohanim.
Priestly benediction -
Thumbs touching,
Raised hands form
Overlapping window lattices
Scattering the light of
Magic-lantern melds and
Jump-cuts:
Displacement, exile and
Homecoming.

Forces centrifugal,
Centripetal:
Kleos, Nostos
Wanderlust, Nostalgia.

From
Litvak to Lemba,
Salonica to Samarkand,
Storied strands
Entwine, untwine the
Chromosomal caduceus:
Aaron’s Rod. As

David
Among the Ba’athists,
He hoodwinks Damascene
Achish of Gath. Deeply
Ingrained in Syria’s elite,
Shortlisted for Deputy
Defence Minister, his
Cover is blown when they
Triangulate his transmitter. As

Deborah, she
Judges Laurel Canyon with an
Open door; creates
Counterculture crucible with her
Graffiti Wall. Emerges from
Creeque Alley Mugwumps
Concussed, gains three notes in her
Vocal range. At twenty-five,
Boldly decides to raise her daughter -
Sired by a baritone bluesman -
Alone. As

Dean of the
Marburg School, his
Teachings move a moony
Russian youth to abandon
Musical composition; to
Value pure concepts over
Intuition.

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Rejected in love, the
Youth mopes around Marburg, where
Particles, cobblestones regard
Him with sullen scorn. His
Instinct bids the
Youth take one step at a time,
Back to Russia where, among
Futurists, he answers his
Calling in verse. As

Doyen of
Montreal’s coffee-house darlings,
Acid-dropped Hermit of Hydra,
He dwells among Arvanites whose
Forebears flee Ottoman oppression.
Later, ordained Silent One,
He waits hand and foot on the Roshi.

Hearing of his plight,
Chabadniks set out to rescue the
High Priest from Mount Baldy.
They bring whisky. He has plastic cups.
His Channukah candles guttering,
They mellow to his zazen as
Contemplative tuning fork.
Drunk and humbled, they depart,
Happy that he still holds fast to
Aaron’s Rod.

Middle and Ring parted
Pull us away from our centre,
Into Kleos, Wanderlust.

Thumbs touching
Pull us back to our centre,
Into Nostos, Homecoming.

The Name peeks through the
Latticework of the letter Shin:

Shin of Shaddai -
Almighty, Unknowable;

Shin of Shekhinah -
Her Presence
Dwells within and without us,
Strangers to ourselves in
Amok Time.

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Monochrome image of Kohanim hands on a gravestone in a Jewish cemetery in Germany

November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM

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#poetrycommunity #Symbolism #ImageAndVerse #ClassicMono #Abstract #shadow

Penumbra

Penumbra -
Limbered with
Aplomb of
Ages
Unborn.

Jacob’s Ladder -
Amid a litter of
Vapid suburbs -
Glimpsed,
Countenanced from
Forgotten
Lookouts.

Throughfares,
Appetency-spoored,
Throng with progeny;
Jangle idly with
Clamour of galère,
Ill-willed coterie.

Feral squall of
Rout-scrum
Multitudes in the
Midst of
Abounding
Wonder.

Now -
Each
Second courts
Cataclysm.

Now -
Each
Lust-itch
Lifts the
Lid on the
Abysmal.

Ineffable
Horror of
Glib
Lucidity -

Held,
Noted in a
Holloway of
Blackened
Houses.

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After Я провижу гордые тени
(“I foresee proud shadows”, 1899), by
Valery Bryusov (1873-1924), Russian Symbolist

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Monochrome image of the shadow of a crane head cast upon the iconic facade of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.

November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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μύω (múō, “to shut, close”) +‎ ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”), i.e. “Squinting”

The
Skilled squinting of
Greek sages: Diogenes once
Dismissed a king for

Troubling his noonday
Bedazzlement. Like Whited
Sepulchres scolding the

Hoi Polloi for the
Eye gunk that dapples clear-
Sightedness, while blind to the
Eclipse that defines

Reason’s purview, they are
Dracula before his
Own mirror image.

Spooling Ariadne’s thread,
Maze-bound, they are unaware that
Minotaur - gaunt

Pariah - now pines for the
Gristly scarecrow flesh of
Platonic frame.

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Light effect from window in hallway of Le Corbusier mansion in Paris

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Monochrome image of part of Roman-Latin epitaph with blurred relief of Minotaur in the background

November 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM

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Fatal Day in Halberstadt

1361
Decameron‘s Twelfth Night.
Lollards hitch their prayers, their
Plight to the Morning Star.
Pestis Secunda scourges
Plantagenet England.
Giotto’s Last Judgement
Slumbers in umbrage on the
Cusp of the Quattrocento.

Halberstadt,
Flush, bustling prince-bishopric - its

Cathedral-treasure stash of
Relics looted at the Sack of
Constantinople – hosts the

First of its Kind:
Chromatic keyboard,
Twelve half-tones arranged in
Octaves.

Halberstadt - where, at
St. Burchardi’s Monastery,
Cistercian Sisters
Scale the canonical hours:
Minor -
Terce, Sext, None and Compline;
Major -
Matins, Lauds and Vespers, in
Perpetual rounds of
Work, prayer and Lectio Divina.

A century before,
They nestle in a fecund vessel of
Mystical vision, where
Mechthild of Magdeburg -
Fluid, erotic, vernacular -

Lights the way for Meister Eckhart; where

Mechtilde, Helfta’s Nightingale,
Dispenses Special Grace to Dante as
Matelda.

Six-hundred-and-thirty-nine years
Slip by. Millennium tenor
Deeds St. Burchardi’s to
Zen musical maverick already
Eight years passed:

Bird now uncaged -
Purposeless, intentionless -
Pecking away at membranes -
Temporal, musical – from the
Beyond. The

Six-hundred-and-thirty-nine-year
Lease unfolds As Slow as Possible on an
Organ fashioned for this purpose.

Hiss of compressors, taut notes
Coasting over billowing groans until
2640.

Pauses a week before
9/11: seventeen months of silence, then
Nine movements, each lasting
Seventy-one years.

Chord kept up over seven years, between
Benedict’s flight to Castel Gandolfo and Second Lockdown.

Austere piety,
Avant-garde whimsy -

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Spurning utility, instrumentality -
Partaking in visions that far
Outstrip lifetimes,
Current-day zeitgeist confines.

Contemplative prayer,
Playful contingency -

Tentative forays into Deep Time,
Possible only when one
Listens closely with
Open heart,
Open mind.

Eternity disclosed in
Nugacity, ephemera:
Birds, lilies,
Mustard seeds.

Cloistered life,
Choral work
Whetting one’s
Keenness for the
Core -
Still and small.

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Highly contrasted monochrome image of a statue by Susan Turcot (2007/8) of mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg (1207-1282)

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Poster-sized mural of US avant-garde composer, John Cale (1912-1992)

November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM

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#Expressionism #Trakl #feverdream #delirium #darkpoetry #deathpoetry #monochrome #scape

Dies Irae

Childhood hidey-holes,
Dens, boltholes -
Rot-hollowed hamlets.

Weeded, dark-plumaged
Hundreds at prayer:
Sisters, mothers chanting
Compline mysteries
Abroad, ashore.

Windows folded with
Hands poised, paused.

Stillbirth. Blue-veined
Riddle hushed amid the
Rank-trimmed pageantry.

Purple-tongued jester
Gibbers in still delirium at an
Untenanted catacomb.

Lush-lapped thorns finger
Fever:
Blood-spat cackle raised from
Famished dreams.

Panic rocks the death-rattled
Coracle.

Blanched shadows -
Strangers -
Crowd the
Addled steps of a
Landing stage.

Vile body
Breeds rats and lilies.

Supplicant-sinner
Thirsts for
Cerulean.

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After Gericht (“Tribunal”, “Judgement”, 1912-14), by Austrian Expressionist poet,
Georg Trakl (1887-1914)

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Black-and-white image of the rotting hull of a small boat on a salt marsh adjoining an estuary in North Norfolk. Darkened skies.

November 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM

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September 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM

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Hybrid of #FireSalamander #Myths #Legends & #Dragonlore #Serpentlore

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September 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM