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Saraphir Camille

@saraphircamille.bsky.social

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Singer songwriter, poet, writer 🎵📝 Earth lover 🌍 diversity advocate ✨ Urban gardener 👩‍🌾 Nature 📷 Danish Scot 🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://linktr.ee/Saraphircamille

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Jul 31

Slowing down during recovery has sparked some experiences and thoughts.... time is indeed very relative!

#poetry #timeisrelative #relativity #poetrycommunity #poem #poet #singersongwriter #writingcommunity #reflections

Time
Time expands
when not pushed.
Stretches synchronously
with our need to
not use it.
No longer divided into
hours or minutes
chores or lists
we can let it breathe
rather than tether it to our agenda.
Maybe time is not there
to be used
just as life is not there
to be achieved.
Both need to be lived
thoroughly
and followed into
every corner and crevice
every spiralling in and out
every ascent and descent.
This is the true meaning of
‘to be alive’ -
to be with time.
To let time live you so deeply
that we may one day
however briefly
sense what lives time.
© Saraphir Camille Legind

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 1d

‘It’s the steps themselves that make the path, instead of the other way round. We are creating even as we believe we are following.’
— Emma Törzs
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 1d

At last. After months
of flowers hugging the light
it's our turn to shine.
🍃🍂🍁
#haiku #naturehaiku #autumnleaves #naturephotography #naturepoetry #poetryart

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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social · 5d

all day at the beach
no shirt no shoes no service
no worries either

#haiku #senryu

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn frames itself
better than anyone else.
Look deeply, it speaks.

#haiku #naturehaiku #autumntrees #naturephotography #poetrycommunity

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 9d

It's #bandcampfriday today and here's a wee reminder that you can still listen to and buy both physical and digital copies of my EP 'Getting Real' that came out almost 3 years ago. Link is in the linktree in my profile. Come on, make it real!
#bandcamp #singersongwriter #musiclover #edinburghmusic

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 10d

My take on the superpower thing from 3 1/2 years ago. I stammered since I was a child and worked to live with it well for the last 3 decades. If you love it it becomes a source of strength, and both it and you transform.  🐦‍🔥🦸‍♀️ #superpower #stammering #stuttering #disabilityawareness #poetrycommunity

What is your superpower?
Mine is I mash up words -
sometimes whole sentences too;
I'm so good at it words form a queue.

What is your superpower?
Mine is I show my vulnerability,
sometimes shove it right in your ear.
Just be aware, things aren't always as they appear.

What is your superpower?
Mine is I help people grow.
By meeting what is different to ourselves
we grow beyond what we already know.

What is your superpower?
Mine is I allow others to be free;
by showing our differences openly
we help everyone claim their humanity.

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks! 🙏🙏🙏

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 14d

Wee practice the other weekend and the first part of 'Baby Can I Hold You' by the one and only Tracy Chapman. Have played it forever and never tire of it! My voice is getting almost back to normal - or it was, before I got this bad cold!
#singersongwriter #coversong #tracychapman #alternativefolk

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 14d

Morning coffee tastes better from a handmade coffee cup. This one is made by Sharon who attends The Columcille, a day service in Edinburgh for adults with support needs. I'm lucky to teach movement there and bagged this treasure yesterday at the autumn fair. #handmade #pottery #morningcoffee

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 18d

OCEAN HEART (2006)

My heart is an ocean
with differing depths
canyons, reefs and magnificent structures.
Mountains stretching towards the light
and bottomless pits
all teeming with life.
.....

New (old) poem on my website... read more on:
saraphircamille.com/ocean-heart/
#poem #poetrycommunity

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anncy goranson.bsky.social @anncyg.bsky.social · 18d

A Swedish study of 2.4m births published in 2024 which used actual sibling data found no relationship between exposure to paracetamol (ex Tylenol) in utero and subsequent autism, ADHD or intellectual disability.

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 18d

Barefoot on the beach,
Toes tracing patterns in the
Sand, tide returning.
#RetroArtPrompt #barefoot #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@artbyseranya.bsky.social

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 23d

First 20 seconds of a new song I've been working on: "The Games You Play". It's been half finished since the spring and decided this month it was actually finished. Sometimes you just need to sleep on things a very long time!

#singersongwriter #originalsong #scottishmusicscene #alternativefolk

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 26d

More Andy Goldsworthy impressions. It's definitely worth a second or even more visits. The pieces evoke different impressions and associations every time. @nationalgalleriesscot

#andygoldsworthy #natureartist #edinburghculture #culturevulture

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 28d

I had a cat called Momo too, she's hopefully still making others happy with her sweetness. 💔❤️‍🩹

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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 28d

When a musician plays music they must experience it in their whole body. The dance, too, must be experienced by the dancer in a different way than those watching. I wonder if that is true of all artists?

This work © 2025 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · 29d

Had a short moment enjoying my new hobby today.... found these treasures in Edinburgh charity shops at a bargain. Some of my favourite classical pieces and building up a classic folk collection that started with Nick Drake. 😁

#vinyllove #vinylcollector #musiclover #folkmusic #classicalmusiclover

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Sep 11

This sweet morning light;
Makes cool air more bearable.
Sugar coats the day.

#haiku #naturehaiku #micropoetry #autumnmorning #morninglight #naturephotography

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · Sep 11

Xenophobic zeal,
Cancer on our collective
Conscience, flag shaggers.
#emoetry #zeal #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social

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Gassho 🙏🏼 @nobletruth.bsky.social · Sep 9

A spider’s web holds dew -
each bead a small mirror.
Touch one, and the whole net shivers -
you are never only you.

#Interbeing #Right-View (Sammā Diṭṭhi) #Dependent-Origination (Paṭiccasamuppāda)
#poem #poetry #buddhism

Photograph of dew on a spider’s web in the forest

A spider’s web holds dew -
each bead a small mirror.
Touch one, and the whole net shivers -
you are never only you.

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Sep 9

Quick morning haiku:

Too cold for sandals.
Almost But my feet want one
more day. Freedom calls.

#haiku #autumnmorning #micropoetry #poetrycommunity

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Sep 8

New quick poem: Garden Warfare

#naturepoetry #gardenpoetry #organicgardening #poetrycommunity

My neighbour gardens
like they are at war.
The power tools their artillery
the weedkiller their chemical agent.
Nature must be subdued
all wildness controlled.
I want the Earth to shout
what I can't
to fight back.
But it keeps the peace
like I.
It can only quietly
resist
by killing their brambles.
I can only hope
my organic words
take root
instead.

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its handkerchief, that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance too." W.E.B Du Bois.

#quote #inspirationalquotes #artquotes

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Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Sep 6

Today was warm enough for a wee practice outside! This is the beginning of my song "We Cry", which I wrote 2-3 years ago. I saw the consultant this week and my vocal cords work fine and he's sure my range will return with gentle practice. So all good. #singersongwriter #originalsong #vocalrecovery

Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's becoming the same here.