Nature Mystic

My pamphlet of poetry published by Heaventree Press in 2008 with a wonderful portrait by Coventry artist Colin Dick on the cover.

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Back Cover Blurb

The philosophy of these poems is in their shared ethos of Dharma and Druidry. Regardless of the originating nation, language or culture, these and other forms of mysticism are comparable attempts to open up that dimension of human experience that is beyond words.

Here Patterson, both a scientist and a spiritual practitioner, uses poetry, passionate and contemporary in its style and, further, with its own formal regulations and restrictions, as a medium-perhaps the best medium-to attempt expression of this unutterable experience. These poems are his journey, written during several years of exploring this hidden dimension in the natural world.
ISBN 978-1-906038-29-8

Contents

Three Welsh Theophanies The Snake Charmer We Met First in the North Big Bill Blake The Golden Weed Journey Towards Winter The King Who Sits upon the Water A Dream The World Wind's Wall October on Hearsall Common Winter Visitors Barndon Marsh Winter Light Canley Brook

Gibbet Hill Winter Night Battles One Step From the Past to the Present The Hedge Runners Mad Folk All The Upper Coppice Building Presence Valentine's Day 2007 Too Hot to Hold, That Sun Spirits of the Motorway Notes to the poems

Perfect Wisdom and the Goddess who shares its name cannot be apprehended by the discursive mind or the senses. She is, however, omnipresent as the essence of all phenomena; thus, she may be encountered in the midst of any experience or activity. To see the world as it is -- a dynamic, fluidic, open horizon of meaning – is to gaze upon her divine body and face.

Miranda Shaw, Buddhist Goddesses of India, Princeton University Press 2006