Of Witches & Wolves

Life is but a series of moments, snapshots in time held together by fragments of memory. Of Witches and Wolves is a collection of some of those moments; wisps sewn together into a patchwork quilt of poetry. Loss and love, distance and togetherness, this book covers a year in emotional time; abstracts of reminiscences written in the moment. It is a story of two worlds, two realms, two dreams, two dreamers. The duality of the real and the unreal…Of witches and wolves.Every woman has a witch in her, looking to charm a wolf to be her familiar. Every man has a wolf hidden deep inside his chest, searching for a witch to guard, to serve, to fulfil his destiny.Nurtured within our imagination since we were babes in arms, witches and wolves, familiar denizens of fairy tales, occupy a dreamscape in which we rarely escape to in adulthood. These poems seek to lead us back into that world, to a place where we can reconnect with our inner self and try to make sense of our experiences. It is a journey beyond any physical place, nor simply a mystical, mythical realm where feelings are materialized in words. It is to a place where rhymes are sculpted as monuments to memories, shrouded in the fog of human confusion. An allegorical journey between a heaven scattered with stars and valleys cloaked in mysteries, among which - if we search hard enough - where we find the summits of human feeling revealed.If life is a sea where we are all lost, poetry is an island; a haven, a place in which we can retreat after a hard day to float into our imagination. An imaginary space where the witch is in love with the wolf, and the wolf surrenders to his love.