The Lion’s Song

Artwork and poem by Richard Neville

waiting early morning

waiting in the white open

awaiting what more

only the still silence

snow in the early morning

awaiting steps and tracks an opening

towards the wall of stones dark in the white

an opening beyond

the sound of sea beyond

where the headland curves into ocean

there in the white there is something new

there in the white there is a mist from which comes someone new

there in the white there is the spume of seafall, the wrack of the flotsam brought to the beach

so actions turn to steps upon the white

in this opening there is a question, to which there is no answer,

except the careful step that takes from one end of the field to the other

from one end of the day to the other

from one end of the pause to the

other end of the breath which opens and speaks

let the throng rush in the space between

let the water clear and become clean

let the water course cool and even and in the gentle slipping dipping serene

let all settle and all be seen

Scroll Stories Unending

Combined Artwork by Richard Neville and Agnishikha Ray

Poem by Agnishikha Ray

The story begins, a story unending

Echoing melodies, voyagers of sea; of space

Unroll the scroll, beneath the ocean

The lion swims, fishes gather

Who tells the story?

Who listens and who is heard?

Vastness of these tales, the ocean contains

Holder a memory and myth, like a library

Where the roots connect

The hands of nature, and all that is alive

A myth unfolds, unrolling, limitless

Splashes of energy, hues of chaos

Travellers arrive, the forest expands

Conversations begin, stories exchanged, stories unending.

The Legend of the Chaos Box

Ballad poem by Richard Neville; Animation by Agnishikha Ray

Story and characters inspired from the scroll making sessions

This is the story of a box

it lies beneath a tree

I’ll tell you what it does contain

It’s not a fantasy

There’s something in it, nature’s force

Call it what you will

Some call it chaos, and its course

Can bring both good and ill…

The 4 Mugs Lullaby

Combined Artwork on paper

Poem by Richard Neville; Animated by Agnishikha Ray

Blow the wind and blow the storm

Sweep across the land

Bring those things the wind has borne

Carried in its hands

Blow the wind and blow the storm

Crying in the night

Bring the moon as yet unborn

Into the starlight