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Gasha

by Lady Amethyst


The heart of Gasha
was a palace and a garden
her dreams of him
swollen by rain
as storms brewed in the sky
horses fled
a plague swept
across the land
many dead.

Gasha was a princess
daughter of a king
Alone and fragmented
her heart twisted by tears
dark trees
ravens by the towers
graves upturned by wind
brave men long gone.

Gasha wanted to kill
the ones who broke her
and release herself from turmoil
and despite that
she carried her gold-handled knife.
In a gown of white silk
cold and shivering
she, Gasha, wept and felt
unnerved by her untrained skills.

Fire burned on the hill
and her dream came true.
She put down her knife and drew
deep breaths so as not
to feel afraid.
Now she would not kill
herself
or
her pain.
The man of her wants came
and lifted her away
carrying her to
somewhere clear and full.

Gasha wanted to know
why all the suffering
what was it for?
Her lover said:
"To build your strength."
In all women are the stones
and metals of anger and rage
but intelligence and bravery
found first in pain
whether it be
childbirth or loss.
Sometimes joy makes it glow.
As always, that is a gift.

Plenty of meat.

Soups with some mint and bread.

Frothy coffee.

Peppermint tea and normal Earl Grey tea.

Plain chocolate.

Rice.

Sausages and mash with gravy.

Cornish pasty.

Peas.

Raw onions.

Garlic!

Peppers (light)

Cooked chicken steak.

Warm tuna.

Brown sauce.

Curries.

Yorkshire puddings.

Toasted sandwiches with pate.

Lemon or orange flavoured chicken.

Apple and roasted pork.

Beef and chips.

Hot caserole

Haggis

Stuffing

Black pudding

Hot fruit with cold cream

Nuts and chocolate coated Brazils

Chocolate liquors

Beer!

Cooked mini apple pies with cream

Lamb with mint sauce

Pepper

Noodles

Breakfast cereal is going to be out. It's going to be too cold for cereal. Cooked breakfast will be IN.

This is what I found and I wanted to share it. This is so pretty, a poem from Bluest Eyes Place

Sunrise to Sunset

There is a beautiful place in England called the New Forest.
My family and I used to go there often during the summer in the 70's and 80's, then beginning of the 90's.
One particular place was haunted, apparantly.

My cousin and I were playing as children, and the wind picked up. It became a heavier wind that followed us around the bushes. We noticed that it started "screaming" as soon as we said it could be a ghost! There was no wind anywhere else or even by the adults. It only happened to us kids.

Later we were playing again another game. I looked up and saw a boy in the distance walking towards us. He was all on his own. I mentioned this to my cousin and she stopped to look at him. We both watched him coming near and we expected him to approach us. This boy was dressed unusually. He also had long hair tied back in a ponytail, fastened with a bow. He suddenly ran a few feet to his right and hid behind a shrub. We laughed because it was clear that he was hiding from us girls. We would've seen him come out and he didn't. Then I ran over to this area and - there was no one there. This boy either slipped away but he couldn't have done as we would've seen him. Or he vanished into thin air? Dressed as he was, like someone from the 18th Century, I wonder if he was a boy spirit? I will never know.

Many other odd things happened in that place on that day.

It wasn't my favourite locale as there was more fields than trees and it was quite spooky.

Talking as a skeptic I know that this could've been a boy who wasn't what we thought he was. Maybe he was a conjurer, or he did run away somehow, and we didn't look? That still bothers me, the fact he disappeared like this. Whatever it was it shall be placed in my experience of unknown things.

Another place in the New Forest, where we camped, felt like we were being watched. It was a mystical and very beautiful feeling. I believe in fairies. This isn't something I had only in my childhood. The memory of this vast forest in England shaped me and tuned me into a spiritual path of my ancestors.

To get a feel of what I experienced as a kid, you need to watch the epic anime film "Princess Mononoke" and look at the wonderous forest spirits and the forest God. I didn't see anything like the Kodama from the film but I certainly sensed something magical.

Visit the New Forest

Othala

Call of the breeze.
Horses flee.
The sky shouts huge,
thunder new.
Come into view,
an army spread,
fierce and dark
boiling red!!!

Fury swords,
Backs of metal
helmets horned
.. some..
not manufactured!
Made by the hand,
By young and old men.
Gold and silver, running belt
shouting men... wearing pelts.

Dead are burning
smoke riding high
black collumns plough the sky.
The dragons and woodcraft,
gleaming rich,
cooking barley and animal meat.
Hungry, starving, chewing raw
some like it that way
and falling seasonal days.

Night is near,
dreadful start,
look to the West...
watchout for the stars.
They make masters
and lords they do,
taking plenty in rivers
sleep is over for you.

He pulled my hair.
He bit my neck,
the angry lover
of the big broad chest!
You've never seen
so much mean...
vicious warrior men
around the princesses
Vikings came
tearing strength.
I am a Saxon woman,
at their mercy, yes.

My home, my family, my land...
blood, graves, war and children ground,
Its where I belong,
where I belong..
where I die.
In the fire,
follow my dead husband,
at his pyre funeral.
A warrior's sight.
A warriors sigh.
The ravens fly...
They fly.

Going South,
More war to come,
war is never done
WAR. War.
A man's word.
War. War.
A man's work.
War. War. War.
A man's work,
Is NEVER DONE.

by
Lady Amethyst

Toughness is more than being a rock...
it's the colour of your gemstone magic.

By Lady Amethyst

Viking's Word

by Leaves Eyes

Can a choice be chained
When their decision is made?
Are we taking any anger away?

I don't want to change (I don't want to change)
I don't want this to stay in your heart forever (In your heart)
But the law is law and will be (indeed)
And I gave a Viking's word

Faraway landscapes receive him with grace
In bright beauty and wonders
We find truth of me
I gave a Viking's word

A Viking's word

Can a man be chained?
Can a man be free?
Through some sad winters until the end comes swift

For I will return (For I will return)
I don't want this to stay in your heart (In your heart)
But the grandeur it strained for (Live on)
But I gave a Vikings word

Faraway landscapes receive him with grace
In bright beauty and wonders
We find truth of me
I gave my Viking's word

Where we were courting, embracing in peace
In hidden safety and freedom, we court without fear
A Vikings word.

Faraway landscapes receive him with grace
In bright beauty and wonders
We find truth of me
I gave a Viking's word

"When Long Ships Arrive"
by Folkearth

The secrets of the wind
Are whispered to the leaves
The song of hidden creeks
In the bronzing Autumn light
-elven dance in the twilight...the riddles of the sea
Raise a murmur to the shore
O mermaid,answer me!
Where's now the hero
Did he stand or did he fall?
I yearn for the tide
When long ships arrive
Underneath the amber sky
Wherein Odin's ravens fly!

Rolling thunder in the distance
A heavy rain begins to pour
I welcome the chariot of Thor
The wrath of heavens above
-full of pride I raise my sword!
The dying sound of battle horns
The screams subside on the field
The creek I knew so long ago
Now red it foams and rolls
Carrying my blood to Valhalla's hall!
I yearn for the tide
When long ships arrive
Underneath the amber sky
Wherein Odin's ravens fly!

Little Red Riding Hood is one of the most sinister fairy tales around. It's a story about a girl who dresses in a red hooded cloak and meets a wolf on the way to meet sick grannie. Later on the wolf devours grannie and then pretends to be a sick old lady when Red Riding Hood arrives to the cottage. Soon the wolf ends up devouring the girl. In some stories, the woodcutter or hunstman rescues the girl and grannie. In modern liberal stories the grannie is found hiding in a cupboard. It's still pretty scary for kids, especially when the girl comments on the wolf's big teeth.

First of all this story reminds me of other tales where children are eaten by monsters and wild animals. It's like the myth of the sacrificial bride or maiden chained up ready for the dragon. It reminds me of Andromeda and the Kraken in Greek mythology. Also the significance of the girl wearing red is to attract danger. Bulls charge when they see red. Red is the colour of blood and the colour of your target prey. Red is also the colour of fire smouldering. Blood in relation to the story of Red Riding Hood is to do with the wolf's hunger and the girl's menstrual period because Red Riding Hood is often portrayed at an age of puberty. Blood is also the colour that clashes with others. The sick grannie in the forest is like a typical elderly lady in most fairy tales. In some stories the old woman in the forest is a bad old witch. In some stories the wolf is a werewolf type who can talk like a man. The girl wearing a hood is symbolic again of being hidden and secretive.

Originally this tale might've meant something else.

Monks wore hoods in the Dark Ages. Women covered their heads with veils and bonnets. The story is negative because it demonises nature and wolves. In some ancient tribal traditions the Wolf was seen as a wise teacher and a friend of humanity. People bred domestic dogs from wild wolves so long ago. So here the story is set with a dangerous wolf, and a psychotic one. The girl is going to be a bride because she wears the red gown and veil of twilight that signifies her witchcraft and pagan roots. The girl in the story picks flowers and herbs. In some stories the woodcutter is her father. Originally he might've been her lover and the girl slightly older.

Connotations of plagues and illnesses occur in the story. The grannie was sick because of leprosy or the Black Death. Her witch granddaughter finds herbal remedies to cure her grannie but she was interrupted by a werewolf. At the end of the story the demonic wolf destroys the sick old woman and the girl witch. This story is influenced by the early church fathers in their condemning of all things earthlike, flowery, medicine, animals and healing. Red Riding Hood is like a child version of Morgana le Fay in Arthurian legends. She can also be associated with Maid Marion. Sometimes the hero (warrior or hunter) is too late and other times he saves Red Riding Hood. He is like the knight of the Round Table, or Robin Hood with an axe. The warrior/hunter and woodsman is the Green Knight or Green Man or knight of old, including one of Camelot. He's a wolf slayer instead of a dragon slayer.

What we have here is a story connected with other stories and I'm placing this connection.

Diamonds are minerals. They are one of two crystalline forms of the element carbon the hardest natural substance known, used as a gem and in industry.

Diamonds crystallize in the isometric system (see crystal ) commonly as transparent to translucent white, colorless, yellow, green, blue, or brown octahedrons (the familiar diamond shape). The extraordinary brilliancy of diamonds after faceting is due to their very high refractive index, which is greater than that of any other naturally occurring gemstone. In addition to the gem varieties there are bort, which is poorly crystallized or of inferior color and in fragmentary condition, and carbonado (black diamond), which is gray to black and opaque, with poor cleavage. Bort and carbonado are used as abrasives, in the cutting of diamonds, and for the cutting heads of rock drills.

Diamonds are found in alluvial (loose earthy material deposited by running water) formations and in volcanic pipes, filled for most of their length with blue ground or kimberlite, an igneous rock consisting largely of serpentine . At the surface the blue ground is weathered to a clay called yellow ground. Diamantiferous (or diamondiferous), or diamond-yielding, earth is mined both by the open-pit method and by underground mining. After being removed to the surface, it is crushed and then concentrated. Sorting is done by passing the concentrated material in a stream of water over greased tables. The diamond, being largely water repellent, sticks to the grease, but the other minerals retain a film of water, which prevents them from adhering to the grease. The diamonds are then removed from the grease, cleaned, and graded for sale.

The earliest sources of gem diamonds were India and Borneo, where they were found in river alluvium. All famous diamonds of antiquity were Indian diamonds, including the Great Mogul, the Orlov, the Koh-i-noor, and the Regent or Pitt. Other famous diamonds are the Hope (blue), Dresden (green), and Tiffany (yellow). In the early 18th cent., deposits similar to those in India were found in Brazil, mainly of carbonados, though they may have been known as early as 1670.

In 1867, a stone found in South Africa was recognized as a diamond. Within a few years, this began a wild search for diamonds, both in river diggings and inland. In 1870-71, dry diggings, including most of the celebrated mines, were discovered. Well-known South African diamond mines are the Dutoitspan, Bultfontein, De Beers, Kimberley, Jagersfontein, and Premier. Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa are now the world's major diamond-producing nations; other important countries include Australia, Russia, Brazil, Angola, Canada, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Tanzania, and Venezuela. The use of diamonds to finance African rebel groups and fuel civil strife in the 1990s led, in 2001 and 2002, to international agreements designed to certify legitimately mined diamonds.

Synthetic diamonds were successfully produced in 1955; a number of small crystals were manufactured when pure graphite mixed with a catalyst was subjected to pressure of about 1 million lb per sq in. and temperature of the order of 5,000 (3,000). Synthetic diamonds are now extensively used in industry.

The discoveries of 1870-71 in South Africa led to a great number of prospectors staking out claims and securing the diamonds by open-pit or quarry mining. The damage caused by floods and mudslides, unavoidable when there were so many different claims, was an important factor in the series of amalgamations carried on by Cecil Rhodes and Barnett Barnato . Rhodes brought about the merging of their interests in the De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., which established (1889) an effective monopoly over the diamond industry. Loss of diamonds by theft was reduced through the passage of the so-called I.D.B. (Illicit Diamond Buying) Act, which limited the trade to licensed buyers and imposed penalties for the possession of uncut stones without a license. Thefts were further curtailed by the institution of compounds in which the workers live while employed by the company and which they leave only after being thoroughly searched.

Most of the major diamond producers belong to, or have cooperated with, the De Beers-led marketing cartel, formed to maintain the price of diamonds at a high level. De Beers, under Harry Oppenheimer's leadership (1957-84), maintained its dominant position in the industry by using its numerous worldwide companies to buy up new sources of diamonds and to control distribution of industrial diamonds and production of synthetic ones. In the last decades of the 20th cent., however, De Beers' hold over the unpolished diamond market decreased, and in 2000 the company announced it would end to its policy of controlling diamond prices through hoarding and shift its focus to increasing sales.

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