Ailynari


    Gender: Female
    Location: On a riverbank, somewhere in Indiana
    Orientation: Straight
    Body Type: Average
    Height: 5'6"
    Religion: Other
    Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
    About Me: I'm a gentle soul, shy but adventurous. I am often struck by wanderlust, and would forget to come home, except I have two fuzzy beasties depending on me (my dogs).... I am vegetarian....I am delighted by simple things, the patterns of frost on my window, a colorful sunset, a delicious cup of cappuccino or tea....I am truly amazed by all the magic I continue to find in the world....and thankful for all my wonderful friends and family.
    Music: Grateful Dead, Rusted Root, Candlebox, Tool, Led Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Santana, Evanescence, Audioslave, Jethro Tull, Nirvana, Brother, Minstrels of Mayhem, Elvendrums, Medieval Babes, Istanpitta, Gaelic Storm, The Gypsy Nomads, Priscilla Hernandez, Omnia, Faun, Irfan, Dead Can Dance, Kan 'Nal, Michael Hedges, any kinda rock, some heavy metal, classical, blues, bluegrass, world music, show tunes, eclectic really...music is the only thing that keeps me sane sometimes...
    Movies: Chocolate, A Knight's Tale, Pan's Labyrinth, Practical Magic, Lord of the Rings, The Dark Crystal, Rocky Horror, Second Hand Lions, Sound of Music, Trouble with Angels, Wizard of Oz, Bridge to Terabithia,Corpse Bride(especially the music), Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Gilbert Grape
    TV: I rarely watch TV, but I did like Northern Exposure when it was on
    Books: Runes of Elfland, The Wood Wife by Teri Windling, Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski, Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan, Siddhartha, Peter Pan, Alice In Wonderland, Thomas The Rhymer by Ellen Kushner, anything edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Daltlow, actually a list of authors would be easier, Brian & Wendy Froud, Ari Berk, Juliet Marillier, Joseph Campbell, Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series, Charles DeLint, Brothers Grimm (unedited), Jane Yolen, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Tolkein, Carol Goodman, Katharine Briggs, Catherynne M. Valente, Julia Cameron
    Poetry by Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Sylvia Plath, Terri Windling, Neil Gaiman, Jeanine Hall Gailey, Billy Corgan, Peg Aloi, Louise Gluck, Sharon St. Joan, Susan Schaeffer, Thomas Zimmerman, Craig Arnold
    Likes: Open-minded people, pets, wildlife, being out in Nature, poetry, mythology, folklore, archaeology, chocolate chip cookies, the changing of the seasons
    Hobbies: Drum circles, drumming, Rennfaires, traveling, astrology, gourd crafts, gardening, writing poetry
    Vices: Moi?
    Virtues: I'm a good listener, and I keep secrets (So I get to hear a lot of interesting stuff)
    Heroes: My parents who adopted me (little did they know they were getting a changeling child), and all the wonderful people who work for Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah

    Cyrano De Bergerac

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    Inspired by Sunshine & Blue Skies

    Thursday, March 4, 2010, 09:46 AM EST [General]

     

    Tiny poems in celebration of the coming Spring:

     

    lovely morning

    greeting the morning

    clamorous choir of finches

    first blue sky in days

     

    contrast

    icicles trickle

    a frozen puddle below

    sunlight and shade

     

    good morning

    a different voice

    I don't recognize you

    cheerful bird

     

    anticipation

    pungent scent of mud

    the epitome of Spring

    mother earth waking

     

    4.1 (2 Ratings)

    Absolutely wonderful! Basho would instantly recognize a comrade in you, Ailynari! The poem entitled "good morning" is an sparkling gem; a perfect masterpiece in my estimation. Honestly...I believe Issa himself would be proud to be the author of that haiku! Cheers!

    Tod
    March 04, 2010
    03:46 PM EST

    I like the visual painting, step by step, in "Contrast."

    Tommy
    March 04, 2010
    05:41 PM EST

    Tiny - but perfectly formed
    Carolyn ^_^

    Carolyn
    March 04, 2010
    06:42 PM EST

    check out dan fogelbergs to the morning on u tube. its a cool parallel to your poem. i know dan fogelberg, o no. but really! song from half mountain thrills my soul too

    mark
    March 09, 2010
    01:25 AM EST

    Lovely. :)

    Deanna
    March 11, 2010
    09:45 AM EST

    Eidolon

    Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 10:07 PM EST [General]

     

    In the hedges are souls; one is mine.

    I know it not.

    I move forward in the moonlight

    Take to wing, all below is forgotten

     

    Every joy from now on will be

    measured against the delight

    of this night

     

    The hawthorns whisper, “She is away…

       …is away…”   Their voices echo like the

    farthest chimes carried on the breeze

     

    Beyond the border of starlight,

    devoured by darkness,

     

    I pause for an instant.

    I fly on.

     

    4.1 (2 Ratings)

    Ha! This is lovely! The first line is thrilling....and the whole poem full of delicious mystery and longing for freedom and bliss! I love it.

    Tod
    January 27, 2010
    01:56 PM EST

    Beyond the border of starlight, you fly on, showing that there is no border after all.

    (You bring the starlight to all of us. ;^)

    Tommy
    January 27, 2010
    09:02 PM EST

    This is so lovely! Thanks for sharing!

    Marianne
    January 28, 2010
    06:33 AM EST

    A Magical Faery Door

    Friday, January 15, 2010, 08:58 AM EST [General]

    These are a couple of my mom's gnome friends enjoying the new faery door I bought for them as a holiday gift. It's a magical door made by Sean the Gnome at Wee Folk Outfitters.  It is absolutely beautiful and remarkably crafted. (As you know,  gnomes are expert crafters.)

    The door is hanging in my mom's kitchen, and the gnomes have been busy inviting all their faery friends in to have a look. Although some of Mom's kitchen utensils have been mysteriously misplaced since the installation of the faery door, there have also been random plates full of yummy cookies appearing on the counter overnight ;)  Not a bad trade-off I would say, so I am off to order my own faery door for my wee friends!

     

    3.7 (1 Ratings)

    If you place your cursor on Wee Folk Outfitters, there is a link to Sean's web site. It just doesn't look like a link! One of these days, I will figure out how to do this, lol.

    Ailynari
    January 15, 2010
    09:12 AM EST

    Thanks for the very kind words, Ailynari!

    Hope you like your door as much as your Mom likes hers. :-)

    (cool gnomies, btw!)

    Sean the Gnome

    Sean the Gnome
    January 15, 2010
    10:17 AM EST

    Dreams of Ever Spring

    Thursday, January 7, 2010, 09:31 AM EST [General]

    The following poem was inspired by Fleas'  videos of his own magical poetry transformed into equally enchanting music. If you haven't already, visit his video page at Root Deity Poems. (I'm sorry, I'm so hopeless at getting links to work.)

     

    Dreams of Ever Spring

    Half a moon cycle past

    Winter's longest night

    Across the sleeping, frozen land

    Music fair and bright

     

    Aphrodite's minstrel

    Awaken me to bliss

    Flowing spiral melodies

    of waterfall caress

     

    Encharmed by Otherworldly song

    I dance away the morn

    Through sunlight sparkled

    meadows, scented flowers adorn

     

    Conjured by a mortal

    who steps from Faery dream

    and sweetly sings remembrances

    Of realms of in-between

     

    0 (0 Ratings)

    Beautiful !!

    Sarah
    January 07, 2010
    04:16 PM EST

    Videos being here...

    Tommy
    January 08, 2010
    07:07 AM EST

    Tommy to the rescue with the link :)

    Ailynari
    January 08, 2010
    07:21 AM EST

    Ailynari, you are a truly faery-inspired Bard!

    Tod
    January 08, 2010
    06:39 PM EST

    Somewhere Over the Rainbow

    Monday, December 7, 2009, 02:38 PM EST [General]

    3.7 (1 Ratings)

    I never was aware of where that voice came from!


    Tommy
    December 07, 2009
    03:10 PM EST

    Yes, and this is such a sweet & soulful rendition; he was truly blessed with a beautiful voice.

    Ailynari
    December 08, 2009
    08:23 AM EST

    Oh this is delightful!

    Marianne
    December 13, 2009
    08:51 AM EST

    stunning singing to an amazing backdrop of images ~ the voice of a angel ~ so that is over the rainbow :)) Beautiful x x Hugs to you Ailynari

    Libithina
    December 21, 2009
    08:59 AM EST

    Photobucket

    Love Lib x x

    Libithina
    December 21, 2009
    09:30 AM EST
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    A great many thanks Ailynari for your lovely comment.
    Ever the Fae of ever the way be with you, Fleas x

    Root Deity Poems
    March 15, 2010
    05:08 PM EST

    Thanks so much for checking my profile for me. Yep, it's working now.

    I apologize for taking so long to check back, I get side tracked alot. ~sigh~

    Thanks again!

    Wishing you a fabulous Thursday!
    :)

    Deanna
    March 11, 2010
    09:43 AM EST

    you are so cool! in may we have the renaissance fair in muskogee . merle haggard for the old song says. the fair is held in a place called the castle. it is a castle for sure ! ill get some pixs and send it out. you ever get to ne oklahoma you get an honorary ride in 218. we will listen to some blue oyster cult and some floyd. peace m

    mark
    March 09, 2010
    01:21 AM EST

    your poem was beautiful. you must be an old soul! thanks for the message . it is very cool.m

    mark
    March 01, 2010
    10:33 PM EST

    Dear Ailynari,

    thank you so much for your soulful comment. I am so glad, that you like the little portrait of Judith.

    Laumee
    February 28, 2010
    01:24 PM EST

    hi aily, yes the brick street is in chelsea,ok. that is the town closest to thecoal mine that i work for. the street is around a hundred years old . main streets in oklahoma where like that but have been replaced. i can remember my dear and sweet mama puting me in the front basket of her bicycle and riding me around in muskogee ok when i was very small. some 40 years later i go back to muskogee and look for these streets. i find them but the bricks have been replaced. while i am reminiscing, she also left me at rotary park in the late sixties with the college kids while she done her shopping. i can remember the turtle neck sweaters and the paisley clothes from then. and also yes to the mountains. they are the awesome ozark mountains in arkansas on hiway 412 that i drive home from 2 to 3 times a week. thank you for letting me remember a simpler time when i was a child!!!!!

    mark
    February 27, 2010
    12:09 AM EST

    Thank you for the warm welcome.

    George
    February 12, 2010
    04:58 PM EST

    Thank you for your kindly message Ailynari, he was indeed quite a character and always believable when he would answer the phone with 'Hello, Battersea Dogs Home.' As he ran a pub for many years I'm sure this left more than just the odd one ot two people calling very bemused to say the least, and even I had to think twice despite knowing it was him.
    Your poem 'Eidolon' is truely captivating and enchanted too, thank you for posting it.
    May ever the Fae of ever the way be with you, Fleas x

    Root Deity Poems
    February 09, 2010
    09:51 AM EST

    Thanks Ailynari! I was working on something new over the weekend...but it was a flop! Such are the risks of creative endeavor, eh? Back to the drawing board.

    Tod
    February 08, 2010
    04:11 PM EST

    hey thanx for the link to hot tuna. i know jorma and jack from the airplane. your musical knowledge is second to none ailynari! many thanks ,m

    mark
    February 05, 2010
    11:24 PM EST

    Dear Ailynari,
    Thank you for the gracious comments on my artwork - and on Alaska!

    Teresa
    February 05, 2010
    01:19 PM EST

    Thank you for your nice comments. I really enjoy browsing your place and discovering all the beautiful things you show us.
    And I really love your hat : )

    Laumee
    February 01, 2010
    07:33 AM EST

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