Crow knowledge
A collaboration between Nimue Brown and Imelda Almqvist
Stand before the light, invite darkness
Your very presence begets shadows
To let the light touch self is to know
How bodies form night shapes also.
Become crow, become evening
Wing and feather, beak and claw
Become midnight manifest at noon
Step into your shadow, inhabit it.
Be the absence that is presence
Covering to reveal enchantments
Stand between stone and sky
To become stone and sky.
There are infinite forms to wear
All the stories in the world
Willing to enter your being
Weave richness into your soul.
It was not enough to write one tale
So many voices on the sea breeze
A tide of tales, a torrent calling
To be heard, known, embodied.
Come to the shore, let the crows
Teach you to be your other self
Your many imaginable lives
Breathing together in one skin.
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Image by Imelda Almqvist, words by Nimue. Find out more about Imelda’s work these places…
PREGNANT HAG TEACHINGS (on-line school)
Author of four non-fiction books:
NATURAL BORN SHAMANS: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life (Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages) SACRED ART: A Hollow Bone for Spirit (Where Art Meets Shamanism)
MEDICINE OF THE IMAGINATION: Dwelling In Possibility
North Sea Water In My Veins: The Pre-Christian Spirituality of the Low Countries
www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk
