Today's poem:

Galway Races
- by W. B. Yeats

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/817845727272321024/galway-races?source=share

#racing #WBYeats #poetry #joy #life #vigour #authenticity #galway

> But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32233/pg32233-images.html#Page_60

https://kalliope.org/en/text/yeats2002021474

#WBYeats #WindAmongTheReeds #TheSidhe #TheWindSpirits #ClothsOfHeaven #CoatOfDreams

//mirror///invocation//
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Yeats transforms the act of applying makeup before a mirror into a sacred, deliberate retrieval of the soul's original blueprint.

The painted mask is not a deceptive disguise, but a sovereign reclamation of the perfect, unblemished identity that existed before the chaos of the physical world fractured the self.
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#mirror #self #wbyeats #poetry #spirituality #writing #literature

Something familiar holds your attention for longer than usual but not because it changed. Your way of seeing has shifted, allowing more detail, more presence to register. It's been there, waiting without urgency, whether or not it was seen.

This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-bottleneck

#WBYeats #StayHuman #PatienceInPractice

Happy Yeats Yeets Crowley Day!

On 4/19/1900, William Butler Yeats & another member barred Aleister Crowley from entering the Blythe Road (London) temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, kicking Crowley down the stairs when he persisted (according to Richard Ellman).

https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/aleister-crowley-william-butler-yeats-get-into-an-occult-battle.html

#UnofficialDiaryDates #WBYeats #AleisterCrowley #YeatsYeetsCrowley #BattleOfBlytheRoad