The Spirit of the Wolf Clan ©2021 Louise Gallagher
spirit of the wolf clan running through my veins Fierce. Loyal. Fearless. streams of wildness flowing endlessly through the vast unknowing of the mysteries of life endlessly flowing through the untamed fires of my heart burning away all resistance to run Wild. Bold. Free.
The moon. The moon. Oh galaxy of night dreams…
Okay. So that line just wrote itself out when I started to type. It’s kind of a prequel to Spirit Wolf Clan.
It all started with a prompt I read yesterday on Goff Jame’s blog. I followed its thread and landed at Eugi’s Causerie where I found the prompt with instrustions to:
Go where the prompt leads you and publish a post on your own blog that responds to the prompt. It can be any variation of the prompt and/or image. Please keep it family friendly. Prompts close 7 days from the close of my post.
The Spirit of the Wolf Clan is where the prompt took me – first to the poetry, then to the artwork.
All of its creative expression inspired by a prompt to write something, anything, about this month’s Wolf Moon.
Someone asked me yesterday how it is that I just seem to keep creating. How does it happen, they asked.
I don’t really have an answer as much as a sense of memory beyond this known world… A feeling of being open to the whispers of all of life flowing around me and feeling that presence stirring the creative forces deep within the crucible of my belly.
Once stirred, the forces start bubbling up in a wild dancing concoction of words and images weeping through every pore of my body, yearning to get out.
So I let them out.
Perhaps, told my friend, it is that I listen to the whispers and do not censor myself. I don’t criticize, condemn or judge my work-in-process nor in its relative completed state (relative because… well there’s always word for one more brushstroke or one more edit out of a word). I look at it through loving eyes and ask, “What are you here for me to embrace? What windows into my creative nature are you seeking to be opened?”
See, I believe that whenever we say something like, “I”m not very creative,” it’s actually our yearning to experience our creative nature calling out.
We can see through the window, we sense creativity — how would we recognize what we judge to be its absence if we didn’t? — but we’ve never opened the window to let the essence of its nature flow in and out and all around us.
Yesterday, I read a prompt. It stirred the creative forces deep within my belly. I looked through the window of my soul, deep into their depths and opened the window.
… and the spirit of the wolf clan flowed free.
Namaste
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Do pop over to Goff Jame’s place and open the window to his creative force. And once you’ve sated your senses there pop over to Eugi’s Causerie and immerse yourself in all the poetry and sights of the Wolf Moon.
Louise, what a beautiful and expressive poem. I love that you pour your heart into your work, which makes it so uniquely you! I am delighted you found my prompt through Goff’s blog and thank you so much for joining in.
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It was such fun to play Eugenia! Thank you! ❤
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My pleasure, Louise!😉
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I love the artwork with the spirit wolf running beside the other. Also the verse and its mystical energy.
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Thank you! It felt really empowering to create it.
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You’re welcome.
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A bloody good post
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Thank you so much Joanne! ❤
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Magical imagery Louise…. This song by Kati Ran I thinks your poem..
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Oh my goodness Ivor!!!! That song and the video and her voice. the drumming. chanting. The wolf running and then the end two. WOW! Thank you. I’d never heard of her before — now I’m going to check out all her music. I love that it’s part of Nordic oral history. Beautiful. Thank you. ❤
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I thought you would appreciate the music/video.. I do like to follow different music cultures, especially Scandinavian and Icelandic, their music is steep in folklore history… I love Sigur Ros from Iceland..
This one is amazing.. about an ancient Raven
poem .. enjoy…
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Oh wow — that one too is wonderful. You have sent me on an odyssey — are you familiar with The Hu?
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No, I have heard much of their music .. only a few pieces…. I think they are Mongolian…
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Yes. They are. Very fierce.
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I’ll look them up again…It’s probably a while since i did….Watch these Sigur Ros songs…. and I’m sure you’ll have to search for more…
Glosoli (Official Music Video)
Festival
Ny Batteri
Olsen Olsen..
Svefn-g-englar (Official Video)
… I can watch their music for hours.. I get entranced…
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