“Lilith and the Devil” was first published in The Mountain Astrologer magazine (USA) – Issue No. In later folklore, “Lilith” is the name for Adam‘s first wife.) Lilith appears as a night demon in Jewish lore and as a screech owl in Isaiah 34:14 in the King James version of the Bible. Many scholars place the origin of the phonetic name “Lilith” at somewhere around 700 BC despite post-dating even to the time of Moses. ![]() The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind and storm demons or spirits as Lilitu, in Sumer, circa 4000 BC. ![]() (From Wiki: Lilith ( Hebrew: לילית Līlīt Arabic: ليليث Līlīṯ) is a female Mesopotamian storm demon associated with wind and was thought to be a bearer of disease, illness, and death. I remember thinking that day “She’ll be getting published before long.” T.S.Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dylan Thomas, Archy and Mehitabel, e e cummings, Anne Stevenson, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochead.….she had kept in touch throughout my time out, sending messages of support, sending me her poems to read. Carole had just left my house, staggering under the weight of a bag full of poetry books…. Ten years on, and I was at last emerging from my 2001-8 retreat. In the late 1990s Carole Bone turned up in my daytime astrology class: red hair, big eyes, bright mind, very eager to learn, fast talker, very hard to keep her quiet. (Carole’s submission for the Poetry Anthology 2011 has been shortlisted. Here is her second published poem, “Sisterectomy”, which appeared in May 2010 in the Poetry Anthology 2010 published by United Press Ltd. ![]() T.S.Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dylan Thomas, Archy and Mehitabel, e e cummings, Anne Stevenson, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead.….she had kept in touch throughout my time out, sending messages of support, sending me her poems to read. Carole had just left my house, staggering under the weight of a bag full of poetry books ….
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