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Solivagant Wisdom: Slow Living for Quiet Souls @solivagantwisdom.bsky.social · Jul 8
Solivagant's #workshops, #retreats & #hypnocoaching are designed to nurture the innate #giftedness and #wisdom of #introversion, #solitude, #highsensitivity & #neurodivergence.

Solivagant Wisdom adheres to the principles of #slowliving and #slowculture #quiet

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#newpoem / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

#Persephone #Saturnalia #Capricorn #Underworld #DepthPsychology #Stunday #bskypoetry #JohnDonne
Embertide Unshackled, our Shadows elope as the Sun’s arc grows flat: Lengthen-thicken into Eye slits of lusty goat - Horned midwinter ascendant; Heighten-straiten into Eye slits of wildcat - Ambush of fright-glint espied, Tail-flick dimly glimpsed at Daybreak on the solstice. Stellar flasks emitting Light squibs: Sun-stilled embers Waning, fading - Blown afresh into frail glare. Wisp burgeoning on its Northward turn splits Dark seams open at its core, Sucking our shadows Inward, Down into Captivity. Six pips spouted in custody: Six light hours forfeit, Six dark hours enriched. Saturn Nights Dissolve us back into Mischief, ecstasy; into Blood-mire Formlessness; into Bottomless mystery. Rapture and release in the Hearth-deep of slumber. There Dark swells, Begets cracks, Streaking Night with Faint drills of Light Seed. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Sun at midday in late December illuminating the River Nette in the Weser Uplands, Germany
December 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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🙏 @hool415.bsky.social #PromptCombo #dilemmas/decisions

#newpoem / #photography:
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#poetry #triggerwarning #suicide #antisemitism #pogrom #shoah #Magdeburg #Stolperstein #niewiederistjetzt #DoctorsPlot #UsefulIdiots
Magdeburg Stolperstein Dedicated to the memory of Sophie Masting (née Reiß), 1894-1934 I Some liken suicide to Awakening from the Nightmare of being cast Arbitrarily into existence: Accident of birth, culture, Zeitgeist, circumstance Redeemed by an unassailable Title to one’s own life and person. Sophie Masting flieht in den Freitod: Choiceless choice disingenuously Couched in “death freely chosen.” Her first, last time in the Cathedral. From afar, sexton glimpses Her distressed expression, goes to help. She disappears into the North Tower Stairwell. She fears her body, chained to Ancient instinct, will recoil at the flight. Fears the unbearable ease of release. Fears her body, falling “thirty-two Feet per second, per second,” will not be Enough to knock her out. Saint Catherine, Cathedral Patroness - Protectress of housewife, shoemaker - Divests Sophie’s kind of Her Beneficence. Masting shoe shops, Magdeburg institutions: now Boycotted, besieged by brownshirt mobs. Kauft nicht beim Juden! Moves Sanctioned, no doubt, by hand-wringing, Upstanding citizenry. II Saint Catherine’s statue, like that of Saint Maurice, Cathedral Patron: Emblematic of other accidents of birth, Rendered sympathetically, highlighting Intelligence and benevolence. Saint Maurice, mighty knight-martyr, Arrayed in chainmail – groundbreaking Depiction of an African in European art. From the same thirteenth century, Ten Virgins - fine-featured Wise Five, Forlorn Foolish Five - Adorn the transept’s Paradise Gate. Entering from the north into the Transept’s Ernestine Chapel, a Grotesque Judensau, or Jew’s Sow greets you. Caricature bodying forth false claims that Jews suckle as piglets do on sows’ teats: Inhuman propaganda meant to stoke Revulsion, disdain against a people Deemed in league with the Devil. Pogroms, deportations follow two Centuries hence. Magdeburg maintains Its Judenfrei status for the next Three hundred years. III Nowadays, the Patristic lesson on the Five Foolish Virgins is long Forgotten. Nowadays, the Well-intentioned Foolish Five Neglect to test whether their actions Reflect a proper discernment of Divine Grace. Now, the Road to Hell is torchlit by the Virtues of these Five Foolish Ones. Now, with Dissonance abutting derangement, Progressive-regressive Weltverbesserer Delight at the spectacle of latter-day Pogroms played out in real time over GoPro, quadbike and hang glider: the Ancient Hatred made palatable – Delectable even – to legions of Triggered vegans. Now, with Zombie snarl-hiss of Slander spored and spun out of the Doctors’ Plot, they worry the Carcass of a long-interred imperial Autocracy, greedily sucking on thumbs Steeped in the putrid brain of its long-Spurned ideology. Their Rancorous ignorance Drunk as black milk from the Sow’s Cold, Hard, Hind Tit. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 NOTES: 1. Flieht in den Freitod - lit. “flees into free death“, i.e. suicide. 2. Kauft nicht beim Juden - “Don’t buy from the Jew“ 3. Judenfrei – “Jew free“ 4. Weltverbesserer – “do-gooders“, “idealists“ Memorial stone dedicated to Sophie Masting (1894-1934), who jumped to her death from the North Tower of Magdeburg Cathedral Photo: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 13th-century sculptures of The Wise Virgins (left) & The Foolish Virgins (right) on either side of the Paradise Gate, Magdeburg Cathedral
December 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Today is John Milton’s 417th Birthday. Reading Paradise Lost for the first time in my teens remains one of the most important moments of my own creative life.

As a tribute to him, here’s a recording of me reading his sonnet number 19, on his blindness. #poetrycommunity #JohnMilton #poetsonbluesky
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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#PoemsAbout #Imps 🙏 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#newpoem / #photography: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2022

#Poetry #Midrash #Purim #Tarot #HangedMan #Baselitz #Huysmans #Art #Scandal #GallowsHumour #SaintPeter #Martyrdom
Querkopf I Faecal-slop chamber pot tipped by Mistake over the head of her miscreant Father, Haman’s daughter, Mortified, defenestrates herself. Eleventh cut on the gallows crossbeam; Eleventh cut coupling Heh ה and Vav ו in the Divine Name. Ten cuts on trunks either side: Ten sons hanged with Haman from the Tree meant for Mordechai. Unseen angel trips him while he begs the King’s forgiveness. He falls upon Esther. Seems to molest her. Aghast, apoplectic, The King turns grief – theirs, ours - Upside down into Joy. II He grows old. With Hands outstretched, Fastened with belt, he is led to his Fate on Vatican Hill. Faith’s frail vessel, thrice-denier, Unlikely pillar of stability, he is Nailed to the cross head down, with Feet raised on high, deeming himself Unworthy to die upright like his Lord and Saviour. III They laugh at the Hanged Man Blissed in his upturned stance. They laugh at the Fool Advanced with blithe step upon the Precipice ledge. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Surrender Pause Stillness Sacrifice IV Born into a Destroyed order, among Destroyed people in a Destroyed landscape, the Artist suspends representation, Becomes naïve again. Dances at the foot of the Cross, Gifts upside-down crucifix to placid Parish. Aghast half of congregation Departs. Poison-pen letters litter the Rectory with death threats. They know not what they do. They think only upon the Belle-Epoque schlock of Black Masses Down There. All the while, Outlaw God goads them, Again and again, with Offence and shock of Obloquy. Querkopf (German) – oddball, awkward customer, queer fellow etc. Photo: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2022 Monochrome image of "Tanz ums Keuz" (1992), sculpture featuring an inverted crucifix, by Georg Baselitz The Hanged Man (Le Pendu) from the Tarot of Marseilles
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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2-for-1 this week, @victoriaspires.bsky.social #PromptCombo 😁

#ThisPoem II / #newpoem (my latest):
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#poetry #London #Pinner #1960s #1970s #Betjeman #Metroland #FrankieHowerd #britcom #campcomedy #innuendo #ancestry
Titter-Bound in Kensington Taciturn ancestor - Great-grandsire - Expires with hardly a stir Fifty years ago this month. Many-portalled capsule of Nested puzzle boxes, he plies the Discreet, seasoned trade of Cabinetmaker. Two distinct early recollections: Iced silence in a smoke-choked Company car as his son-in-law Ferries him to Sunday lunch. He smirks indulgently, knowingly as I tell of nocturnal trysts with Imaginary friends. Hushed, dark-clad mass in an armchair - Soft-brimmed fedora rested, Poised at hand; Plain suit offset by plain Campbell-plaid tie – he murmurs, Dismisses with faint wave an Offer of double cream on his dessert. Denizened in Pinner, he Spurns the blandishments of that Betjeman Metroland suburb. Pines for London proper; Gravitates towards West End, City, Kensington, Chelsea. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Extramural commute to Lectures at learned societies in Bloomsbury, Finsbury or Hampstead; Sought-out talks, shows, tours, Concerts, recitals at Royal Academies, Cadogan or Wigmore Halls. Jobs often take him into town. He works well into the sixties - Well into his seventies: Slow-thaw remission from the Great Depression, no doubt. One morning, he calls at a Terraced townhouse on the Regency garden square where Chesterton once thought and wrote. Frankie Howerd opens the door in his Negligee. I’m not going to say it - Yes, it is a funny place to have a door! Brows arched, plastered aslant over Mock-outrage, reproachful peepers; Finger-jab, skewer-mouthed rebuke: Titter ye not! Image of camp comic, Frankie Howerd, in character in "Up Pompeii" in the early 1970s.
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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