Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 16 - Voices from the Dreamtime, features the contemporary free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories and flash fiction of 65 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Journey with us into the Dreamtime to explore and enjoy poems and stories that linger and haunt. Discover poems of enchantment, fantasy, fairy tale, folklore, dreams, dystopian, flora and fauna, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Cover Image Painting Ð Aboriginal-painting-Greetings by-Melanie-Hava-Brolga
We let life live us, instead of us living life. Ñ Helen M. Ryan
Aborigines believe in two forms of time. Two parallel streams of activity. One is the daily objective activity to which you and I are confined. The other is an infinite spiritual cycle called the "dreamtime," more real than reality itself. Whatever happens in the dreamtime establishes the values, symbols, and laws of Aboriginal society. Some people of unusual spiritual powers have contact with the dreamtime. Ñ Peter Weir
Yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping and waking, mix and cohabit in an atemporal duration beyond clocks and calendars. The Aboriginal world began long ago when the Ancestors sang in Dreamtime the cosmic rhythms that give shape to the things we see, and it is the beginning right now, when a living Tiwi sings the Dream songs that continue, or are, the world. Ñ Huston Smith
Originality has nothing to do with producing something ' new' - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one's origins, it is the dance of the eternal return ... and is as ancient as the Dreamtime. Ñ Billy Marshall Stoneking