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The Lamb

03 Wednesday Mar 2021

Posted by Candia in Animals, art, Bible, mythology, Nature, Photography, Religion, Supernatural

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Easter, halo, lamb, Paschal, radiance, sheep

The Lamb by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Beauty and the Beast

13 Sunday Dec 2020

Posted by Candia in Animals, art, mythology, Relationships, Supernatural

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Beauty and the Beast, fairy tale, Mixed Media, odd relationships

Mixed Media by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Wayland’s Smithy, Oxfordshire

30 Wednesday Sep 2020

Posted by Candia in Autumn, Environment, History, mythology, Nature, Personal, Photography, Supernatural

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Cotswolds, long barrow, Ridgeway, Wayland's Smithy

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Grass of Parnassus

18 Friday Sep 2020

Posted by Candia in Environment, History, mythology, Nature, Nostalgia, Poetry, Religion, Writing

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Alba, Apollo, Bog Star, Dalriada, Elysium, faith, Grass of Parnassus, haar, Lismore, martyrdom, Picts, Rosemarkie, St Columba, St Moluag, The Hill of Fire

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You, the favourite bloom of St Moluag

(he who pipped Columba to Lismore’s shore)

who ranged Rosemarkie’s red promontory,

seeking his personal white martyrdom.

At your petals’ tip is a nectar drip:

a signal for the reapers to begin.

Once, you colonised Apollo’s fair lands,

but made fresh conquest from Elysium,

establishing yourself in this terrain;

settling in the Land of Picts, as Bog Star:

light in the darkness of Dalriada.

Your chalice-shaped flowers, honey-fragrant,

scent craggy coastlines, where soft haar descends.

You feistily commune with sharp night frosts.

Your subtle venation reminded saints

of Christ’s stripes, or of their green island home;

Moluag  preferred your stamens

to the crowns of all those cremated kings

whose smoke ascended from The Hill of Fire.

Sun of Lismore in Alba; Shining One:

he was determined to take root, like you.

You were transplanted; he was translated.

You were pervasive as that white hot faith.

Until today, I’d never heard of you,

but now I seem to see you everywhere.

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Lord of the Rings-ish

22 Wednesday Jul 2020

Posted by Candia in Environment, mythology, Nature, Personal, Photography, Summer

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beacon hill, Broad Hinton, Elvish, Halkpen, hillfort, Lord of the Rings, Wiltshire

Elvish Landscape by Candia Dixon-Stuart.

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The Golden Goose

08 Wednesday Jul 2020

Posted by Candia in Environment, gardens, mythology, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Summer

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Buscot Lake, Canada geese, Cotswolds, golden goose, Oxfordshire

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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White Horse Hill, Oxfordshire

23 Monday Mar 2020

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Oxfordshire, The Manger, White Horse Hill

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Or, to be accurate – The Manger, where the White Horse comes to graze at night.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart.  All Rights Reserved.

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You Want Rembrandt – You Got Rembrandt!

19 Thursday Mar 2020

Posted by Candia in art, Education, History, mythology, Personal, Photography, Religion

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Ashmolean, portraits, Rembrandt, Young Rembrandt

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From the recent Young Rembrandt Exhibition.  Photos by Candia.

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Expulsion from Eden

19 Wednesday Feb 2020

Posted by Candia in art, Bible, Crime, mythology, Personal, Photography, Relationships, Religion

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Adam and Eve, encaustic floor tiles, Expulsion from Eden, Gloucester Cathedrsl

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Gloucester Cathedral

by Candia

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Happy Hallowe’en from Pompeii

31 Thursday Oct 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Autumn, History, mythology, Photography, Supernatural

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Ashmolean, hallowe'en, mosaic, Pompeii, skeleton

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@ The Ashmolean, Oxford

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My name is Candia. Its initial consonant alliterates with “cow” and there are connotations with the adjective “candid.” I started writing this blog in the summer of 2012 and focused on satire at the start.

Interspersed was ironic news comment, reviews and poetry.

Over the years I have won some international poetry competitions and have published in reputable small presses, as well as reviewing and reading alongside well- established poets. I wrote under my own name then, but Candia has taken me over as an online persona. Having brought out a serious anthology last year called 'Its Own Place' which features poetry of an epiphanal nature, I was able to take part in an Arts and Spirituality series of lectures in Winchester in 2016.

Lately I have been experimenting with boussekusekeika, sestinas, rhyme royale, villanelles and other forms. I am exploring Japanese themes at the moment, my interest having been re-ignited by the recent re-evaluations of Hokusai.

Thank you to all my committed followers whose loyalty has encouraged me to keep writing. It has been exciting to meet some of you in the flesh- in venues as far flung as Melbourne and Sydney!

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