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A Sedgeford Christmas Card

from It All Comes Out In The Wash (album) by Bardonthewire

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Words originally written in 1996 and published in 'Exile in His Own Country' (Bluechrome) in 2006. Set by Vanessa Wood-Davies in 2016 and featuring her on harp. Pic by Bhas Allan.
My EDP feature on Christmas- garethcalway.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-meaning-of-christmas-solstice.html

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The elements of Christmas -
Fire and ice -
In this tempered Arctic sun
That burns in the trees.
In these pools like skating rinks
Deep and dark and even.
Ice
In the flinty ground
And the bitter Easterly.
Fire
In the solstice sunset
Bleeding the black woods
And its ice-pink afterglow
And its fire-blue areola.
Ice
In the barn-wide rising moon.
Ice
In my soul as I'm turned
To the unlit wings
That cradle and grave
The sunset's light show.
Fire
In my soul
At a rising star
Burning like ice
In the polar blue.

Fire
In my hearth at home
(Crackling through logs),
In the farmer's field
(Roaring through twigs),
Red-raw and orange
Tongues of life-lust:

The vital, stripped down
Simplicities of winter.
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from It All Comes Out In The Wash (album), released November 22, 2019
originally released Christmas 2016 on 'Lancelot and The Grail Maiden' by Waywood.
Bardonthewire - voice and words
Vanessa Wood-Davies - harp and music.
Pic by Bhas Allan

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Performance poetry with a library card (voice & drum, folk ballads, ghazals, sonnets, beat poems, sound poems, raps) much of it happening 'on the street' or jostling to be heard in the tavern. Researched stories of folk heroes and real folk. History for you. Bardic poetry striving (as all arts do) for the condition of music (from punk though rap to to prog). Visionary lit. for your average Blake. ... more

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