Papering the craic

Old wounds can be ignored

do not seek to

walk before you can run

~ moreso ~

if you've run with champions

before 

scars will heal 

but Time is never repaid

muscle memory

stirs from slumber

as a belief in Self

 an eternal flame

~ make it so ~

and remember always

Magick is real

Author's Note

experi-mental

Reviews

[winter;lyra]

instructions not clear- tried to make child run before he could walk, child hates me now

alright alright, this is the kind of defying logik that i just love to consider, like, you know that feeling when you wanna put salt in your coffee just to try something new? no? alright but i like this one, not as much as the previous ones OH WAIT "EXPERI-MENTAL"! AH! you got me going again

[...]

The word craic is a different thing to my Irish bones ;) a wee lesson here I think TJ... I believe in magick. I enjoyed this. Starz x

[Tony Jordan]

You have Irish bones? I never knew Starzy. Me too!! We could be related? lol
I used craic in a dual-role here so I think your Irish bones responded involuntarily. Like when we hear the Uilleann pipes and our hairs stand on end and we want to fight the nearest Englishman. Kidding.
I glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for your visit Starzy
x
I think all creatives believe in the old magick

[...]

Yes I was born in Belfast. My mother in English/Irish

[Kathryn Smith]

I really like your spelling of Magick. ;) I really loved this! Well done. You sound quite wise Tony.

[Tony Jordan]

Me, wise? I think you know me better than that Kathryn, lol.
I love that spelling too. :))read moreMe, wise? I think you know me better than that Kathryn, lol.
I love that spelling too. :))
Thank you lovely :)

[Jimmy Yetts]

What Ken said.
He is, as usual, concisely comprehensive and profoundly insightful.
You're not so bad, yourself.

[Tony Jordan]

I agree with what you said Jimmy about Ken and it applies to your good self too.
:))

[jacob erin-cilberto]

we definitely have to remember scars will heal..but time won't wait for us to allow ourselves to take another chance.

[Tony Jordan]

Well said J. We have to find a way of becoming mobile before those scars thicken and set.
Thank you. :)

[Enigma Monster]

This almost seems a lesson in patience. Don't rush through your experiences, don't miss the magick that's all around you. Nice job Tony.

[Tony Jordan]

I maybe aiming this at myself then E.M. for I am notoriously impatient - getting a wee bit better though and I am stopping to smell the flowers thank you. :))

[Valentine]

Craic is not in my dictionary. I find myself wanting to read this backwards. Maybe I just woke up. Valentine

[Tony Jordan]

Best review ever Kathie.
Craic is Irish for fun, joy, and just 'what's happening' at the time. I used it a a pun for crack.
Thank you my friend
:D

[lua]

every element of this is so intriguing and so clever

[Tony Jordan]

I'm glad you found it intriguing lua - I did try to obscure some elements - I wouldn't call it clever though but thank you so much for the compliment and for your valued review.
:)

[Ken Simm.]

Could not agree more. About both old wounds and magick. Magick is real and all around us all the time. This is actually quite a lovely lyrical piece this that flows gently onto the surface of the mind and entreats the reader towards the same calm but intelligent ideals. You are important! This we should believe.

[Tony Jordan]

Thank you Ken for this insightful review. I happy that you got something from this. I did want it to be a pep-talk for all - none of us are less than any other and by looking for life's magick (something you are a 5th Dan Black Belt at) we can find strength. (Our Mr Crowley was a bit of a red herring lol)
Always appreciate your worms of wisdy Ken!!

[Ken Simm.]

you are welcome Tony. Do you know George Gurdijieff?

[Tony Jordan]

If you hum it...
sorry just messing.
No Ken I havent heard of the guy. Do you recommend a little googling my friend?

[Ken Simm.]

Most certainly. Particularly 'Meetings with Remarkable men' and Beeelzebubs Tales to his Grandson and Life is real only when I am. The three parts of his sometimes obscure but very interesting teaching trilogy. Meetings is the most accessible and I found the most enjoyable. There is a marvellous, possibly aprochraphal tale of his meeting with the Beast, the erstwhile Mr Crowley.

[Tony Jordan]

Now I did have a fascination with the Occult via the Third Reich (another fascination - lol - I go through them like Katie Price goes through ...well you). That's how I got onto our Mr Crowley. This other guy sounds like a interesting dude too.
Cheers Ken. I appreciate you.

[Ken Simm.]

Try 'The Occult' by Colin Wilson (if you haven't already) its gives I find the most enlightening introduction into all things of this nature but tells about Gurdjieff and Crowley quite impatially. I too am fascinated with these esoteric things originally mainly through my series paintings. You will find them mentioned throughout the poems and in particular 'The Confounded Letters' mostly.

[Tony Jordan]

Yeah, cool Ken. Thanks.

[Ken Simm.]

Sound like I'm being holier than thou here Tony. I apologise for that. For sounding like I'm somekind of expert. I'm not. Just interested. So please feel no obligation to follow the advice of a show off.

[Tony Jordan]

No no not at all - Im just juggling three lamb chops in the pan while I'm chatting here. Didnt mean to seem disinterested - Im totally into this.
Always a pleasure mate!

[Ken Simm.]

Not thinking you disinterested just feeling that the above remarks of mine were a bit show offy. you enjoy your dinner mate. I'm off to make some sausage butties with homemade bread. There doing it again. Now I've got power again after a day without it whilst they harvested a local forest and got too close to a sub station. Always a pleasure as well.

[Tony Jordan]

Ooh wanna swap?
I cant put lashings of HP sauce on these lamb chops.
lol

[Ken Simm.]

Nah.... Too many of the damn things up here. Ships I mean. Not enough wild haggis this year for a decent hunt.

[Tony Jordan]

You Sir are orf yer nut!
lol
Would there not be a good business opportunity in growing the haggis ?

[Ken Simm.]

What are you blathering aboot ye wee numpty. How can ye grow a wild beastie?

[Ken Simm.]

So this is the way you catch your haggis. As you know they live exclusively on the very top peaks of mountains. Consequently two of the four legs are shorter than the other. The common right legged haggis are the one’s familiar to every school child. But your true haggis eater prefers the rarer left legged.. Obviously they are out of season just now. It being the middle of the rut. You can hear the antlered males trumpeting around the hillsides with their common calls of ‘just now’, ‘by the way’ and ‘stop yer blather’.
However, I digress. To catch your haggis, (and for the purpose of this I’m going to talk about the left footed’ because I personally think they taste better). You climb to the very peak of your mountain. Of course your haggis will see you coming but cannot move far because of the leg situation. You then move purposely around the top of the mountain, just below the summit, in a clockwork direction. The haggis will obviously move ahead of you in the same direction. Tartan markings resplendant in the sunlight. These markings change according to geographical location, obviously. After a few circuits it is a simple matter to fool the haggis by changing direction and chase them the other way. They then ttry unsuccessfully to turn around and fall off the mountain and if you are lucky skin themselves on the way down.

[Tony Jordan]

See now, I never knew that, I mean about the middle legged haggis. I've never had the middle leg - is it tasty?

I wouldnt be able to eat the wee beastie after all thon carry on anyway. Away wi' ye!!
I'd probably want to make it a pet haggis and train it to fetch the old Yoda slippers and train it to not eat the remote for the TV.
Then I might even show the wee fella (no...wait...let me finish mate) - show the wee fella at Crufts I was going to say - if you'd have let me finish or the haggis equivalent of same. I reckon rearing a pedigree haggis would be a priiiity good earner and we could gentically mod them to grow tatties on their knee joints.
Where's Duncan Ballantine when you need him...

[Ken Simm.]

Now I know you are humouring me here. But answer me this. How does the famous Kelvingrove museum in Glasgi have a stuffed one and a left footed one no less on display.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g186534-d189009-i161822324-Kelvingrove_Art_Gallery_and_Museum-Glasgow_Scotland.html

[Tony Jordan]

Hahah - too funny Ken. Brill !!

[Ken Simm.]

And its in the Scottish Wildlife display I tell ye. Ah know cos I seen it with ma very two own eyes.

[Tony Jordan]

Oh I ken that you ken what your spraffing about Ken. You could tell me white is black and I'd believe you mate.