“Valika” by Tony Ashenden

Her eyes are soft and brown
where inner love is always found.
Together we go through forest paths
fulfilling our inner dreams.
Our spirits united in love and fun,
mane flying, hearts alive,
as we gallop and jump.
Then stopping to scent the air
watch Gaia’s beauty spread before
and distant clouds float gently by;
ears listening to every whisper
and the songs of a distant birds.
Wind stirring in Nature’s room
silently we stand sharing
our inner secrets with none near.
Blessed are these moments shared
Our inner harmony, united as one.
 
Copyright © 2024 Tony Ashenden
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Having travelled as a seaman to over 40 countries and diagnosed as medically unfit at 22 from conjunctival eye problems to continue his Navy career, Tony was landed ‘high and dry’ without a known future. Mysteriously his eyes returned to full sight within weeks of his discharge, and his medical pension was annulled. Alone and penniless, he took on labour work and socialised at a local dance hall. Recognised as a talented dancer, he qualified as a professional dance teacher with plans to enter the musical theatre, but it was not to be. Writing with the intention of becoming a playwright and living hand to mouth, his life dramatically changed when a medium gave him incontrovertible evidence of events and dead people, and said he was gifted in the same way. While training to express this new-found self, poetry and philosophic writings that he could barely understand himself would flow without hesitation. He practised as a medium and healer, founding a charity to train people to understand their psychic and spiritual selves. He created a Body-Mind philosophy which provides self-discovery of meditative forms of development. An advocate of complementary and alternative medicine and a believer in the unification of body, soul, and spirit, he dedicates his writing to the harmonious development of Man. “Life is real only then when I am.” Please visit his blog Mine Quick Voice of Aquarius to see some of his work.

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