Three Cycles of the Moon
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Once upon a time there were three women, who, inspired by a fourth, set out on a month-long journey. They travelled from New Moon to Full and back to Dark Moon again, charting all the aspects and phases of their relationships with Luna, Her Goddesses, Her moods, and their own. One poet travelled across the Earth, while the two others remained fixed in the terra firma of Australia. They won the treasure of wild inspiration, and yes, at times, struggled with 'what to write', as the month went on, and on, and the Moon just kept rising. Open an eye to the telescope to view Selene, Diana, Artemis, the Rabbit in the Moon, and maybe even the Old Woman In the Moon. Move through the Three Cycles of the Moon, in poetry.
Rosemary Nissen-Wade
Rosemary Nissen-Wade is an Australian poet, witch, Reiki Master and professional psychic medium. She grew up on the island of Tasmania where, throughout her childhood, the moon rose outside her uncurtained bedroom window; so she thinks she was bound to be poetic and magical (and both started from an early age). She spent much of her adult life in the city of Melbourne, and now lives in a small town in the sub-tropical Northern Rivers region of NSW. Author of three volumes of poetry, several e-chapbooks and some collaborations with other poets, she has been a librarian, editor and book reviewer, and has taught writing in both tertiary institutions and community settings. She has outlived three husbands and has a number of grown-up children, foster-children and step-children as well as several step-grandchildren.Rosemary was a founder of the Melbourne Poets Union in the late 1970s, started a program of prison poetry workshops, and was part of a poetry theatre group called Word of Mouth. For a decade she was an independent publisher of Australian poetry, as proprietor of Abalone Press and part of the Pariah Press Cooperative. She taught Poetry Writing as part of professional writing courses at Holmesglen and Box Hill Colleges of TAFE in Melbourne, and at Victoria College, Toorak (Melbourne) which is now part of Deakin University.She founded, and for seven years facilitated the very successful WordsFlow writers' group at Pottsville Beach Neighbourhood Centre in far northern NSW, before handing it over to other facilitators who continued it a further three years. In its ten years of operation, a number of members had books published and two began and completed degrees in Professional Writing. More recently she responded to requests for a new writers' group, also at PBNC, for women writers, as part of Pottsville Beach Village of Women (VOW). VOW Writers was one way in which VOW supported and empowered women survivors of various kinds of trauma, and encouraged them to share their talents more widely. The writers' group, the longest-lasting section of VOW, disbanded after four years with the members having got what they needed from it in terms of their writing and their emotional empowerment. Members still meet socially from time to time.Rosemary has now embraced the online poetry world via blogging, twitter, and international poetry groups and communities. She is a staff member and feature writer at Poets United, an international community of blogging poets, and a sometime participant in other online poetic communities. For many years she administered several poetry and micropoetry groups, first on MySpace then on on facebook, and was a member of others. Now she has given up the admin role but is still an active member if some groups. She seldom chases publication these days, but when invited (which she is glad still happens now and then) she has been included in both online and paper literary journals and anthologies. Her various blogs, both poetry and prose, can be found on her website at www.nissen-wade.com or by googling Rosemary Nissen-Wade. (The hyphenated surname ensures she's the only one in the world!)Her first two paperback books of poetry, UNIVERSE CAT and SMALL POEMS OF APRIL, are long out of print, but selections from each are included in her latest monograph, SECRET LEOPARD – of which only a few paperback copies remain, but SECRET LEOPARD is now published as an ebook and is available on Smashwords.Her work has also appeared in the collaboration, SHE TOO (with Helen Patrice, Delaina J. Miller and Leigh D.C. Spencer) in the chapbooks LIFE AFTER DEATH and THE IMAGINED OTHER (the latter in collaboration with Walt Wojtanik, Phillip Barker and Bruce Neidt) and in a wide variety of journals and anthologies. Her non-Smashwords publications appear on her Amazon page (see 'Where to buy in print').THREE CYCLES OF THE MOON, a collaboration with her friends and fellow-poets Helen Patrice and Jennie Fraine, is available at Smashwords.HELLO EARTH, a series of meditations, is available at Smashwords in epub only.
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Three Cycles of the Moon - Rosemary Nissen-Wade
Jennie Fraine
As a resident of the wonderful Western Plains between Melbourne and Ballarat, I had the moon brightening our cloudless Spring skies often enough to regard her/it fondly and speak to it/her as a friend. She/it shared many of my more mundane adventures – picking up my daughter from gigs in Ballarat and an overseas trip at Tullamarine, taking care of my mother while I was gone. Something so ancient and such an integral part of earth-life also provoked memories – personal and cultural.
But what to do when the moon was not visible? That too provided fodder for comment, not always generous. Unlike my two friends here, I am solidly earth-bound and pragmatic. The exercise, however, brought about for me a renewed sense of wonder at the unique expressions of a tiny sample of humanity, and awe at what is possible in listening to every one of the many billions! Poetry captures and releases like an irresistible perfume the essence of what it means to have language and create a world of magic.
Facing the Window
Facing the window
the light globe reflected there
will never be eclipsed
never rise round and red
never pull my tides
never leave me wondering
what's on the other side
what holds it in