Heron Moksha Her hallowed Killing grounds sprawl amid Teeming shallows, pools and Sumps. Her Neck-bend sinew Erupts into arid Dart of ritual impalement: Small fry go head first; Eels are dashed against Rocks or bill-skewered; Birds, ducklings, voles - Drowned, bludgeoned, Swallowed whole, with Fur, bone and ungual husk Spewed and set aside as Sacral gem-pellets. Her Neck-bend sinew: Pinecone composite of Trinity-seven primes; Twenty-one cervical vertebrae Retracted in flight - Twenty-one skulls Knotted into Dark Mother Choker. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026

©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 Image of Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) standing in the shade of an evergreen tree on the edge of a pond.

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Contributions How to contribute to The Starbeck Orion

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All are welcome to contribute 3 unpublished works to:

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98. Jan Peters International poet, coach and lecturer

Our good friend Jan Peters @janpsolivagant.bsky.social is on #SixtyOdd Poets today. get yourself a cuppa, click on the link, and settle down to read some great #poetry.

Metaxu* Cleave that cuts and binds - Bob-cut categorical imperative Cloaking fragile beauty in Stogie smoke and worker slacks. Ascetic insurgent Burning herself on campfires; Mission-eager poor shot – too Nearsighted to be safe around Guns, but Keen-sighted enough to grasp the Connecting distance that Begets our wretched lot. Fallen bodies, Corrupted souls: Blind walls that keep a Captive World - a Captive God - Apart and in Touch. Perforce unholy Perforce disgraced – to be Created at all, We must become what God is not. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 * Greek: μεταξύ, literally “between” – a concept originating in Platonic thought, embodied here in the life and work of French philosopher and mystic, Simone Weil (1909-1943)

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I'm delighted to announce that my Poet Page/Profile with 6 #poems will appear on the Sixty Odd Poets substack.

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Wicker Man Sequel II: Afterlife, 1974 He goes quietly - Too quietly, in fact. Eyes downcast, he is sullen, Resigned, Relieved. No struggle, No frenzied pleas, No execrations, No desperate screams - Even the animals Fall silent. Such an anticlimax, some Dare say. We are leaderless. Later that year, a Plummy-voiced fugitive with Caddish moustache offers to be Our Laird. But we’re a religious people - We don’t do murder here, and won’t Countenance spouse killers. And, to Be honest, we’re sick of the Notoriety. In fact, everything becomes an Anticlimax: the Unrelenting waves of Orgy, Feasting, Carousing, Innuendo, Bawdy song, Ritual mirth, Communal rejoicing. We seek the sublime Thrill of transgression – that Dire-edged, dark delight made Keener by the dread of Censure and chastisement. Our Christian neighbours revel in it: Shame-filled, knee-trembler sex in barns, Caves, cubicles, hallways, back alleys; Shebeens, whisky bothies, Gambling dens – skulking, winking Furtively at bored menfolk on the Sabbath; Malicious gossip about the Manse family. As if divining our silent prayer, a large Consignment of oatcakes arrives from a Nearby island. Brittle, friable biscuits – Hebridean fortune cookies Revealing Aphoristic Bible Quotes that promise Hellfire and damnation with a Faint chance of Salvation. We shudder in Anticipation. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

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#poem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

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#poem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

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#Poets #poetrycommunity, a great new initiative by @coastalpoet.bsky.social - #PoemsAloud

Thanks @wildfirewords.bsky.social who published this in the OS9 Anthology

#poem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026

#Balagan #Persian #Slavic #Yiddish #etymology #SpokenWord #Carnivalesque

"This new-old house guest." Marvellous poem & reading! 🙏🌠

@coastalpoet.bsky.social came up with the hashtag
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and I gladly add some of mine, starting with this one.

Have a great weekend, I'm searching for my muse within the quiet of clocks ticking away.

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Open Submissions 9: Share Your Original Writing Today Join Wildfire Words for Open Submissions 9! Submit your poetry or flash fiction by Jan 1—original work only, audio welcome!

Delighted to have two poems ("Balagan", "Born under Saturn") published in OS9 of Wildfire Words! Many thanks to @wildfirewords.bsky.social

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©Jan Peters, 2022 Saint Benedict statue, De Taciturnitate

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Original Image: ©Jan Peters, 2022 Statue of Julian of Norwich with Quote: "All Shall Be Well, and All Shall Be Well, and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well."

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Meditation Hypnotherapy - Death Awareness & Positivity Death Awareness & Positivity - confronting death as the key to living a more fulfilled life through trancework & guided meditations

Dispatches from the Unknown Country: Death Awareness Trancework Meditation I

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Heresy! You can't say that!!!

Thrilled to have 2 poems ("Querkopf", "Corvus in Red China")
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From cover of The Seventh Quarry poetry review

Between Places. A poem by Paul Connolly. Published in the Lothlorien Poetry Review and The Seventh Quarry. BETWEEN PLACES Behold, the between-places places. There, in ballast screes, barbed-wire nestled, in wedges of intersecting railway line, plots of nowhere centre on Safestore like villages around a church. Yet they're forever edges even when we are inside them, ossuaries jam-packed with industrialisation's bits. Planning permission for Carpetright can't appease and domesticate these Lares. Kwikfit's scorched tyre offerings bless and fragrance this scapegoat ground. Night Watchmen turn perhaps to Crewe and pray for places where Platonic forms abort and scattered rents of things play peekaboo with memory. Stripped banality makes norms go loose. Who knows what rites the guards perform?

Delighted to find my poem Between Places alongside my great friends @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social & @pdevonald.bsky.social in @peterthabitjones.bsky.social’s brilliant magazine The Seventh Quarry @seventhquarrypress.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

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