KENETLO
A prayer-poem woven in petalled ink
Listen to the audio:
White feather
floats -
a study
in flow:
Bliss me
this
Nettle
Kiss;
S(t)inging
kin
come close
with ancient
roots
of tangled
myth.
Riverstone
blood &
bone
Sink fingers
into
mud, marsh,
meandering -
remembering -
(kommano)...
Red Kite
Old Mother
in flight.
KENETLO
take me
home :
on tattered
wings.Words & Water
Poem woven from the Ritual Writing Walk at Avebury Neolithic Stone Circle, during the recent Avalon Visionary Writing Retreat - Ostara 2026.
Written in Mulberry Botanical Ink from Tom’s Studio.
Completed at Glastonbury Chalice Well, Good Friday, 2026.
Image includes the Intention-Setting Sigil I created for myself at the start of the retreat.
Prayer-poem includes Bronze Age Proto-Celtic words from Carolyn Hillyer’s Her Bone Bundle.
Kenetlo - kindred, kin, clan.
West Kennet Long Barrow - the Burial Place of the Ancestors.
Kommano - memory, remember.
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Thank you.
My memories of being in these physical places on my beloved earth resonate now, as you name them in the notes around the ceremonial words.
My tattered wings are still able to soar and find the thermals rising from them.
Deep thanks for ceremonial words.
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