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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