Devon

Word Pictures

The Cycle of the Year

Fall, Acorn drop, Salmon run, Cozy first rain, dropping leaf souls into earth, Lichen elf forest magic.

Winter, hard cold, winter grown rocks, flood rains, starbright closeness, woodsmoke drifting on muddy paths, withholding of spirit.

Spring, marching in the wet, twigs, bark, colored red, orange yellow of new sap rising, weeds roaring out of the ground, waiting for the start of agriculture, carpets of gentle green erection.

Summer, flowering color, thick pollen soaked air, love of life intoxicating, overfilling senses, fullness of growth, exhaled elementals asleep in the air.

Gathering together, entering into perception of the harvest, completion or death, opening to the darkness.

--Devon Strong, 2000

Silver Weather

White cloud on the land

Weeping into foliage

Seeping into earth

The silver weather is winter in this country,

Fog and rain

Misty dampness filing the cup of soil

Full of soup for cooking

Ready to nourish the life within us.

--Devon Strong, 2000

Picture of Seed

The farmer puts seeds into harmony: Of cosmic/earthy chaos to imprint
Plant beings into life by enlivening: The soil with the preparations to balance
The calcium earth and silica,: The thin sheath over all surfaces
(hair, grass) that tones the cosmic influences on all beings.

--Devon Strong, 2000

Biodynamic Action

Thinning out of substance, world presence is weakening, in pollution and apathy, this being is fading into the background: Incredible that we can now see the difference within a lifespan, what should take eons of neglect has come to pass in these days we now live
Cosmic and earthly connections lack human deeds and compassion, this answer to these questions of what we can do is in the clairvoyant sense of seeing, re-establsihint knowledge of forces in thought that gives enlivening substance to human action.: The practice of Biodynamic agriculture is the process of human action enlivened to reverse the neglect we have of our body-soul.
--Devon Strong, 2000