A thoroughly enjoyable weekend unfolded at the Rosliston Mystic Magic in the National Forest Retreat outside of Burton upon Trent for Easter weekend. Attendees were asked to write an immediate response to their surroundings, a rhyming exercise and stream of consciousness word association exercise. The result were rough, unedited and unpolished. they also perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the weekend.<\/p>\n
Mystic Magic In The Forest Group Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n Ghosts from the past visit<\/em> In place of rain soaked ground Lashing rain, maimed misty pane<\/em> The ghosts of time The trees bend at ease<\/em> Our hosts became friends The breeze caressed my flesh- chemise soft<\/em> My mind is my domain A thoroughly enjoyable weekend unfolded at the Rosliston Mystic Magic in the National Forest Retreat <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[80,65,265,266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222500,"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/222500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jane-osborne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Friends in the rain and memories<\/em>
\n Shared ease the pain<\/em>
\n Whispers flow through the trees<\/em>
\n On the breath of a breeze.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWhere trees stand tall and strong
\nNew friends gathered who all would trust
\nWise words establishing strong bonds
\nA place to release fears, to let go of the past
\nA safe haven to renew trust, and believe.Walking new positive footsteps
\nA place to learn, share and laugh
\nA comfortable place to heal
\nShaking loose grief and pain
\nSharing together laughter and tears.<\/p>\n
\n Gathered with friends upon whom<\/em>
\n We can depend<\/em><\/p>\n
\nForever in mind
\nRain of the north
\nWe then go forth
\nMother Earth
\nWater earth fire air
\nFriends together in thy breeze
\nWe walk together through they trees
\nPast present and future
\nWe will remain
\nTill we once meet again<\/p>\n
\n In the breeze and the<\/em>
\n Bees like to tease the<\/em>
\n Dames, walking down the lanes<\/em>
\n Ghosts from the past<\/em>
\n The trees are our domain<\/em>
\n Rain falling on the grass<\/em>
\n Friends using pans, a blast<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWith many things to recommend
\nSeize the most oaths, upon which
\nOur new lives will depend<\/p>\n
\n Emotion gurgling, throttled by the memory cloak<\/em>
\n Of friends upon who I thought I could depend<\/em>
\n That now lend themselves to be cleansed<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTo tame, maintain and retrain
\nThe wind circling the eye of the storm
\nThe die is cast \u2013 I feel it form
\nI crash in thought, thoughts spilling fast
\nThen take myself from the forgotten past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"