| Oct ’07 |
| 13 |
| 3:00 pm |
Poetry reading afternoon organised by Liz. Note the later start time!!
What does following a Druidic path mean to you ?
For the next seedgroup meeting you are invited to bring a poem or two (not too long obviously – the whole of ‘The Ancient Mariner’ won’t be allowed) that expresses in some way what is important to you about druidry in general and/or OBOD in particular.
“Poetry” can be interpreted as widely as you like and could include prose. It can be something you’ve written yourself or a published piece from someone (anyone) else. You need to be prepared to give a brief explanation of why you have chosen this particular piece though if you don’t want to read it out yourself you can ask someone else to do it.
This will take place at Liz’s flat:
Start 2:00 pm
188 Lyndhurst Rd,
N22 5AU.
Nearest Tube is ‘Wood Green’ or ‘Bowes Park’ overground. map
My contact numbers are 02088887490 (landline) and 07949620809 (mobile)
Can you let Liz know if you hope to come.
Bring something to eat and we’ll have a Druidic high tea during the afternoon. Note later start time – thought it might help people to have a little more time to get their Saturday chores done in the all too apparent world.
Hi Liz,
Can you say a bit more about this? It is looking a bit bare at the moment. Are we supposed to bring a poem? Many poems? What is the plan?
Comment by hilde — 19/9/2007 @ 9:17 am
To clarify :
My idea is to weave together a discussion of what druidry means to us individually (I suspect we all have slightly different ideas – or maybe not)with sharing poetry that we like for the reason that it expresses to us something about what following a druidic spiritual path means.
This means that everyone will need to bring at least one poem, possibly two or three if they are short, snd, as I said, be prepared to say why they link them with druidry. My experience of doing similar things is that individual poems will then spark off a general discussion. As I said, the poems can be written by you but don’t have to be. You could also bring a piece of poetic prose. There are lots of examples in the gwersu if you don’t read a lot of poetry. Questions to consider in advance are:
Why do I like this piece ?
What links it to druidry in my view ?
How does it fit in with what I am studying in the gwersu at the moment ?
The aim is to explore our ideas about druidry and what we do within it, separately and together, in an open minded way. Clearly we won’t reach any firm conclusions. In the process we may learn interesting things abut ourselves and each other.
My thinking is that we seldom really discuss why we are involved with OBOD/druidry/paganism and it might be interesting/useful as a way of extending the gwersu.
Note 3pm start. I think I need at least four people (including myself) for this to work so please indicate interest.
Blessings,
Liz
Comment by Elizabeth — 1/10/2007 @ 8:08 am