Changes to this site

Shortly I'll be splitting the content of this site into two different websites. This one, ministryofwords.com, will remain to represent my work as a freelance writer, editor, poet, author, publisher, copywriter, English tutor and creative writing coach.

I will create another site for the more spiritually inclined aspects of my work, including spiritual counselling, spiritual direction, deep listening and various kinds of personal and spiritual enquiry, exploration workshops and events that I offer or am involved in.

The two sites might share a blog from time to time, but otherwise I'll keep these two threads separate.

Wishing you a beautiful Sunday.

Last Rites, by Adrian G R Scott

When I am gone,
take up your kitchen broom,
sweep three stars down
from the cobwebbed sky.

Place the first in my coffin;
its bleach-bright light
will suffuse my guttered flame,
waken life's soiled toil
to the tear-dried home,
prepared.

Place the second
in my tended garden,
where my gardener
will look for me,
where it all started.

Place the last on a chain
around your neck;
wear it as a sacrament
of the lights we kindled.

Then when the stars
tumble from the sky
at the end, our shining
will illuminate scars on
love's invincible face.

From The Call of the Unwritten, by Adrian G R Scott, available here.