Is it something about being a witch? For my jewellery, I have always preferred silver to gold. I notice many witches do. After all, it goes so well with black! (That’s a joke. Witches don’t really dress only in black.)
We do all love the silvery moon. (Gold is the colour of the sun.)
My favourite silver earrings are odd – a pentacle in one ear, a Scorpio sign in the other. They were meant to be pendants, but I replaced the chains with hooks. (A pentacle is a five-pointed star within a circle. In America – I found out when I was there – they call that a pentagram. No-one knew what I meant when I said ‘pentacle’! We’re not exactly in disagreement, but elsewhere we say ‘pentagram’ to mean only the five-pointed star with no surrounding circle.)
I used to wear many rings. Since COVID, with all that hand sanitising, I mostly wear only two, one on each forefinger. They are silver rings with no stones. They sit quite flat, you see. (They bind me to two pantheons. One is a Celtic knot, the other a scarab.)
‘Gold glows,’ says my friend who is not a witch, to explain why she prefers it. I tell her, ‘Silver shines.’
winter dark –
the waning moon
a silver sliver
Written for dVerse Haibun Monday: Silver
Also sharing with Poets and Storytellers United for FridayWritings #190: Summerween! Summerween is a summer version of Halloween. I didn't write to this optional prompt, but I'm at least sharing something witchy. (Smile.)
Love your haibun, Rosemary! I love silver jewelry as well.
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I'm pleased to hear it.
DeleteI'm with you all the way on silver. Love the haiku!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteWhat a personal and uplifting description of your being and the joy you find in life - Jae
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jae; I'm glad you found it so.
DeleteI like the gold. My class ring is gold with a bright stone. I was so happy when my younger daughter claimed it when I'm gone. Happiness dismissed when she said she wanted the stone for her necklace.
ReplyDeleteMy fingers swell after the night.but my rings generally can go over my nuckles after noon. Doctor said that's normal with your (either arthritis or rhematism, forgot which).
Like your prose, you don't write much of that. Good job here!!
Ah well, different people have different tastes. My dad used to say: "It'd be a boring old world if we were all the same.'
DeleteThank you; I am not good at fiction for some reason, so my prose is non-fictional. Poetry is indeed my first love, but I can and sometimes do use prose in haibun and also in prose poems. And in memoir, but that is not always suitable for posting to Friday Writings, with our word limit. However, I might see what bits of the memoir I'm working on now could be shared.
I guess I wouldn't make a good warlock. I've never worn jewellery and my scientific streak would interfere with the casting of spells... However, I am fascinated by the history and significance of witchcraft through the ages.
ReplyDeleteWell, first of all you would have to stop using the word warlock in that way. There are men who are witches. They are called witches.
DeleteMy personal theory is that magic is just science for which we have not yet found the scientific explanation. (It's interesting how many such things science does eventually catch up with, which some of us have already ascertained empirically.)
Also, it's not necessary for witches to wear any jewellery. We do it (those of us who do) because we like to. We CAN put it to magical uses, but we don't need to.
Very interesting
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you find it so.
DeleteI know someone who refuses to be a witch or have anything to do with spells or magic or anything because she really is one and it terrifies her. She doesn't like it.She says the premonition factor is really awful. She's blocked most of it out but that one she said she has no control over. You can tell when something is going on because she becomes very unsettled and agitated for no reason at all before the event happens... I don't think it would be much fun being a witch.
ReplyDeleteThat particular psychic ability is not necessarily part of the craft. It's sad, though, that she is so afraid of it – though I can understand why. Sometimes that sort of premonition, involving (in the case of someone I knew) major disasters he could not prevent nor warn of (how, and to whom, does one say, 'There's an aeroplane about to fall out of the sky somewhere in the world tomorrow'? – let alone when one is feeling in one's own body the physical effects, the shock and pain ...), things which do quickly come to pass, can be a way of one's guides trying to open one to this ability, i.e. it involves events which you cannot simply dismiss as imagination or delusion. Surrendering to the ability usually means there is no need to receive those particular impression any more; instead you can be of use to people in less dramatic ways, in their ongoing lives. Although witchcraft is not necessarily involved, and I think for most psychics it isn't, it can give one tools which help in such situations. (I speak as both a psychic and a witch.)
DeleteThanks for the explanation, Rosemary.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading! xx
Deletei've seen witches in the movies, they're stylish! or are they mediums? are mediums n witches same?
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DeleteI wouldn’t rely too much on the movies for an accurate picture of either witches or mediums! Eg. some may well be stylish, but it’s not a defining characteristic of either. As you’ll gather from that sentence, no they are not the same, though it is possible to be both. In brief – or as brief as I can make it –
Witches have great reverence and care for the world of Nature, and they work with energy in ways that are often considered ‘magic’ by those who are unfamiliar with them. For me it is a chosen spiritual path which I find suits me. I don’t hold it as the one and only truth. I see casting spells as form of active prayer. But witches don’t have a rule-book of prescribed beliefs, so others may differ from my opinions. Our only rule (on which there is overall agreement) is: Harm none – a VERY difficult one to live up to, let alone determine in advance. It requires much thought and care, which is why we don’t go around casting spells lightly!
Mediums (aka psychics or clairvoyants – though clairvoyance is only one kind of gift a psychic may have) are those who can receive messages of an other-worldly nature, i.e. not emanating from the physical world we all know and experience. This may take the form of premonitions of future events, which later do happen as foreseen; an ability to communicate with non-human beings such as trees and animals, in a way we might think as telepathic; or communication with those ‘in spirit’, including angels, nature spirits, and human beings who have died … or all of these abilities.
As I said to Rall, above, I speak as both a psychic and a witch.
Every time I read one of your "Rosemary" works of art I feel close to you!!! So many similar quirks, the silver jewelry, the energy you throw out .... as you can tell, I am one of your many admirers, Rosemary.
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear Helen. It's entirely mutual!
DeleteWell you knew I'd love this haibun ;)
ReplyDeleteGood! :)
DeleteSo enjoyable Rosemary!! I love your celtic knots and pentacles. And lovely little poem for our silvery moon. I much prefer witches to kings and I think we'd have a lot of fun together!
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm sure we would, too! Thank you for the joyous comment.
DeleteIt's a Rosemary charm! I do prefer silver myself.
ReplyDeleteWhy does that not surprise me?
DeleteI'm glad you felt charmed – in the most benign way, of course.