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The green bus pulled around the corner, squealing on its wheels like a [...]]]> http://create.coyopa.net/prose/enter-jo-ab/feed/ 2 http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/ballast/ http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/ballast/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:05:58 +0000 Coyopa http://create.coyopa.net/?p=151 I’m packing up my possessions at the moment, thinning down, taking apart this home of the last few years in preparation for moving to Wales. It’s a powerful thing. This Winter, I was contemplating becoming a monk, giving into that renunciate urge. Now it seems I’ll play in this ’secular’ world for a while longer [...]]]> http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/ballast/feed/ 10 http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/now-is-the-time-of-bright-colours/ http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/now-is-the-time-of-bright-colours/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:10:16 +0000 Coyopa http://create.coyopa.net/?p=137 Now is the time of bright colours, Time to make raiment of the cloth of dreams; Cast off your heavy worldly dress And make your clothes ecstatic suits For dancing and flying.

The days of the great reptiles Are numbered and few; Now is the time of the rainbow serpent. The skydancers are here And invite your attention. Look for the heroes and heroines: They are [...]]]> http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/now-is-the-time-of-bright-colours/feed/ 4 http://create.coyopa.net/prose/the-falcons-child-beltane/ http://create.coyopa.net/prose/the-falcons-child-beltane/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:46:06 +0000 Coyopa http://create.coyopa.net/?p=125 This is an excerpt from ‘The Falcon’s Child’, a novel. We’re about 200 pages in. Digger Gunn, having moved from the Suffolk countryside of his birth, has come to Edinburgh to find his estranged father. Dazzled by the city, he has all but forgotten his promised mission and his own complex past. He is barely 20 years [...]]]> http://create.coyopa.net/prose/the-falcons-child-beltane/feed/ 6 http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/weathervane/ http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/weathervane/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:11:58 +0000 Coyopa http://create.coyopa.net/?p=118 I don’t know. One day to the next, like a weathervane. Today, I think I’m a Zen renunciate. Tomorrow, I’ll be a poet again Mad with life and singing in the fields. The day after that? I don’t know.

Yesterday, deepening into memory, Swimming in the Goddess water. Today, spiralling out in bright colours, An explosion of Self everywhere. Who is in there? Who is in there? What [...]]]> http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/weathervane/feed/ 5 http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/the-wild-breath/ http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/the-wild-breath/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:18:40 +0000 Coyopa http://create.coyopa.net/?p=109 Today, the earth began exhaling. All Winter, it held its breath, Kept its fragrance to itself, Held itself so tight, I could feel its ribs ache. But, today, the earth began to smell again.

What had been locked in its chest Began to push back out at the world today. Soon, primroses and garlic will follow that Path of life’s breath into sunlight; Now, [...]]]> http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/the-wild-breath/feed/ 11 http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/love-knows-love/ http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/love-knows-love/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:31:03 +0000 Coyopa http://create.coyopa.net/?p=102 Love knows love and meets with joy Its face in the beloved heart. Come in, it says. Sit down and rest! You must be tired, but tell me! Tell me! Where have you been, all this time? What life are you wearing these days? What dance, what wounds, what joys? Ah, the tales we will tell one another, love, the tales!

    [...]]]> http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/love-knows-love/feed/ 4 http://create.coyopa.net/events/the-big-red-door/ http://create.coyopa.net/events/the-big-red-door/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:00:32 +0000 Coyopa http://create.coyopa.net/?p=99 This is just a reminder to all of you in and around Edinburgh that the Big Red Door (on Lady Lawson Street, near the Grassmarket) is open, is amazing, is full to bursting with goodness, talent and magic… and needs your support, right NOW. For details of everything that’s going on, check out their website:

http://bigreddoor.wordpress.com/

Saturday’s [...]]]> http://create.coyopa.net/events/the-big-red-door/feed/ 0 http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/let-there-be-war/ http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/let-there-be-war/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:38:08 +0000 Coyopa http://create.coyopa.net/?p=92 Let there be war.

Let us open all the doors And invite the ghosts in. Let us empty the cupboards, Dig up all the bones And lay them out: let there be war.

Let the wheels turn; Enough of this stagnant peace That is no peace at all. The thundering lie torments me; I am disgusted by the deceits that Underpin it. Better the honesty of war Than [...]]]> http://create.coyopa.net/poetry/let-there-be-war/feed/ 11 http://create.coyopa.net/events/coyopa-presents-coyote-bardo-at-the-big-red-door-13th-20th-august/ http://create.coyopa.net/events/coyopa-presents-coyote-bardo-at-the-big-red-door-13th-20th-august/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:02:08 +0000 Coyopa http://create.coyopa.net/?p=78 Coyopa presents:

Twisted Trickster Tales August 13th (9-11pm) & August 20th (8-10pm)

The Big Red Door, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh (£6/£4 www.tepooka.org 0131 229 1480)

Coyote Paddles His Canoe. No Trouble Here...

Don’t know your Loki from your Eshu or your Coyote from your Monkey? Don’t know a Trickster from a Liar or Trickery from Idiocy?

Don’t despair! Help is [...]]]> http://create.coyopa.net/events/coyopa-presents-coyote-bardo-at-the-big-red-door-13th-20th-august/feed/ 0