Poetry – Sun in Gemini

April 30, 2023 + #Phoetry, #Silenti, landscapes, Life and Death, Photographic techniques, Photography, Places and Prose, Poetry

Led by Bent Metal #Phoetry

by Steve Tanham

Voice of war from a wizened tower Orchestrating irony, avoiding boulders An iron stave of howling notes Issues forth. And throws its force of straightening iron, Slick by rocks that tear and sands that grind To arm the ninety, ready soldiers of the right Angled mage-like, she guides her seeing out to sea And does not deign to turn and watch the curves Of … Read More Led by Bent Metal #Phoetry

April 11, 2023 + #Poetry, #Silenti, Consciousness, nature, Photography, Poetry

Soft pale blues in mackerel sky

by Steve Tanham

©Stephen Tanham 2023 Stephen Tanham is a Director of the Silent Eye, a journey through the forest of personality to the dawn of Being. http://www.thesilenteye.co.uk and http://www.suningemini.blog

March 21, 2023 + #Poetry, #Silent Eye, #Silenti, Consciousness, Poetry, Seasons of the year

Crank and Spin

by Steve Tanham

Stephen Tanham is a Director of the Silent Eye, a journey through the forest of personality to the dawn of Being. http://www.thesilenteye.co.uk and http://www.suningemini.blog

October 11, 2022 + #Poetry, #Silenti, Consciousness, English Lake District, esoteric psychology, Mystical poetry, Photography, Poetry

Only the Eye that Sees

by Steve Tanham

Without the autumn I could not know the spring. The fulsome green, harmonic To elegance of death by colour, Made crisp by failing light. – Without the winter I could not know the summer’s Smile, written in the dance of life Zenith’d with burning Sun Born, frozen in the still of ice. – Without the spring I could not know the autumn’s Parting glory, … Read More Only the Eye that Sees

May 22, 2022 + #Silenti, landscapes, Mystery Schools, nature, Photographic techniques, Photography, Poetry, Seasons of the year, Silent Eye School

When the sky grows

by Steve Tanham

There is a wildness to these last days of May; an energy long pent-up that rushes from the thrusting ground to meet the brightness of the glowing clouds… The whole locked in some exotic equilibrium, one pushing, the other pulling, until, racing past the middle of June, they sight the shimmering solstice. ©Stephen Tanham 2022 Stephen Tanham is a Director of the Silent Eye, … Read More When the sky grows

December 7, 2021 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mystery Schools, Mystical poetry, Photographic techniques, Photography, Poetry, Silent Eye School

The Quiet Places

by Steve Tanham

They live concealed within the ebb and flow of life recycled. That very nature is why they are so hard to find. The extraordinary hidden in plain sight… Their camouflage is the blindness caused by seeing what we saw, before, and not what is before us. A spell so strong, it takes our will to see it, differently. To reach into what seems to … Read More The Quiet Places

July 6, 2021 + #Poetry, #Silenti, Consciousness, Mystical poetry, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Four Seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter,

A Deeper Summer

by Steve Tanham

To a deeper sun I felt I had respondedSoft light behind the eyesLike crossing tidal lines upon a beachA scent, a fleeting touchA feeling words can seldom reachThe light like artist’s silk upon the breezeI struggle to define this placeOr point a finger at its heartSave that it was as far again from summerAs summer is from winterAs entered space yields motion Whose duration … Read More A Deeper Summer

June 29, 2021 + #Poetry, #Silenti, Consciousness, Mystical poetry, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Four Seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter,

Summer’s Retort

by Steve Tanham

A circulating seedThat knows no deathFinds purchase in the soilOf spring’s awakened greenAnd in the silky, shortest nightExplodes. Born a child of solstice lightThe summer’s lust for lifeEmbeds itself withinThe coalescing heart of flowerTo fall as seed returnedThe forms of life are eatenBaked and rolled As harvest yields tomorrow And bonfires mark the end of lightCasting free this single sparkProjected, angel brightInto the heart … Read More Summer’s Retort

June 15, 2021 + #Silenti, Initiation, Mystical poetry, nature, Photography, Poetry

Green Fingers

by Steve Tanham

The heat, it must have been the heatThat teased and turned my stepsThat stepped a different thrust and beatA moan of limbs on fire where once were feet. The green, it must have been the greenThat cooled me in a light I’d never drunkThat drank me in a way that drew a sighSurrendering to what, before, I had not seen.Into the trees; I went … Read More Green Fingers

June 15, 2021 + #Silenti, Initiation, Mystical poetry, nature, Photography, Poetry

Green Fingers

by Steve Tanham

The heat, it must have been the heat That teased and turned my steps That stepped a different thrust and beat A moan of limbs on fire where once were feet. The green, it must have been the green That cooled me in a light I’d never drunk That drank me in a way that drew a sigh Surrendering to what – before, I … Read More Green Fingers

June 8, 2021 + #Silenti, Mystical poetry, Poetry

Rotating Hope

by Steve Tanham

Rotating hopeAs a Captain in a blackened stormScans a ravaged horizonTo find rotating hope- Not only where but who;The ship, by edge of darknessLocates the world beyond the seaSo we, with storm and prayerScanning signs of inner lifeFind voyage in a pulsing lightA presence: there, then goneReturning if we will but stare,And hoping, count the circles©Stephen Tanham 2021 ©Stephen Tanham 2021 Stephen Tanham is … Read More Rotating Hope

April 27, 2021 + #Silenti, Consciousness, Poetry

Days of Sky

by Steve Tanham

When days roll, heavy hearted, by And dusk has turned a darker hue Where breathing’s choked and not so free I rest my back on bark of old ash tree And whisper words into electric blue Discovering solace in the sky ©Stephen Tanham Stephen Tanham is a Director of the Silent Eye, a journey through the forest of personality to the dawn of Being.