Work Prayer

[Kima]

I wrote this following T.Thorn Coyle's interview on Druidcast. If the distinction between mundane and sacred is a false one, then how can I consecrate my work? Feel free to borrow or amend it for you own use if you so wish. I won't put a copyright on this one.


reading is seeing
writing is trusting

that thoughts can be tracked until
ideas give way to a warm-blooded animal
whose behaviour in the wild
scholars cannot dictate

let words be true
let consciousness expand
let words be magic
let words be spells

this is sacred time
this is sacred work
may it honour those
who inspire me
may it please the small gods
who guide me

may I yield to effort
and know when to let things be

[Lily]

I'd love to say "inspiring!" , but alas i think my own work lacks the enchantment yours has (you have made me curious, now)

[Liam Lewis]

There's definitely something in those first two lines:

"reading is seeing
writing is trusting"

And I think that you express the idea of 'awen'- the untameable, impulsive creative spark- really quite interestingly, moving round the subject with the distinction between the 'warm-blooded animal' and the scholar. The way that this returns in the final two lines rounds off the poem well, I think.

The closer I look the more I see!

[Heddwen]

I found the last two lines very profound. A thoughtful poem.

[Crimson Stormfire]

WONDERFUL, NOW TO ADJUST IT TO A RETAIL SETTING......