{"id":26956,"date":"2016-03-20T19:30:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T19:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26956"},"modified":"2016-03-20T19:33:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T19:33:39","slug":"vernal-equinox-at-roll-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/vernal-equinox-at-roll-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernal Equinox at Roll Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Positiveness the bedrock<br \/>\nOf the Cotswold Order, We<br \/>\nMet today our ritual shared<br \/>\nAt Roll Rights we could be<\/p>\n<p>Open in the present<br \/>\nWith blue skies flooding through<br \/>\nSilhouetted trees around us<br \/>\nAnd all those stones that drew<\/p>\n<p>Our every thought the ancients<br \/>\nThe ancestors from before<br \/>\nWho also would have walked these stones<br \/>\nWhose eyes could adore<\/p>\n<p>What we could see, what we could feel<br \/>\nA ritual into Spring<br \/>\nThe daffodils their golden trumpets<br \/>\nHelping us to sing<\/p>\n<p>The snowdrops little bunches<br \/>\nAnd the sunlight on the grass<br \/>\nThe mole hills all that action<br \/>\nArchitects first class<\/p>\n<p>They join in our circle<br \/>\nUnderneath our feet<br \/>\nThey can feel the energy<br \/>\nIt is! Its hard to beat<\/p>\n<p>Its visible you are drawn in<br \/>\nYou are part of it all<br \/>\nChildren dogs from everywhere<br \/>\nThats love each hears a call<\/p>\n<p>And comes you heard the speaking stick<br \/>\nI just turned up here&#8221;<br \/>\nDid you or was it in our psyche<br \/>\nSomething we hold dear<\/p>\n<p>Spring is sprung<br \/>\nEqual day and night today<br \/>\nThe equinox<br \/>\nSomething it has meaning<br \/>\nYou got it folks it rocks!<\/p>\n<p>All that spiritual wonderment<br \/>\nAll that historical worth<br \/>\nNatural physical moments<br \/>\nAnd so close to the earth<\/p>\n<p>The portals they were opened<br \/>\nStirring stuff you feel<br \/>\nYou get it in your marrow<br \/>\nDruidry is real<\/p>\n<p>A play about the dark and light<br \/>\nA fight yea to the death<br \/>\nA play a kind of story<br \/>\nWe remember every breath<\/p>\n<p>The children they were part of it<br \/>\nThe dogs part of it too<br \/>\nAnd every single one who came<br \/>\nWho were part you let it do<\/p>\n<p>Something to you in that circle<br \/>\nYou felt different there<br \/>\nWarmer part of something good<br \/>\nSomething we all share<\/p>\n<p>And then the mead and fruit was blessed<br \/>\nAnd the bard he did his thing<br \/>\nIn and out of his blooming chair<br \/>\nBut again something did bring<\/p>\n<p>The poem of the vernal time<br \/>\nThe equinox and we<br \/>\nListened to the speaking stick<br \/>\nThe prayer and  the Ho<br \/>\nYou see<\/p>\n<p>A Sunday at the roll rights<br \/>\nThe arch druid clad in green<br \/>\nThe cameras were rolling too<br \/>\nAre we all glad we have been<\/p>\n<p>Out there in the spring air<br \/>\nPart of the great whole<br \/>\nA circle to remember<br \/>\nWhere you all played a role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positiveness the bedrock Of the Cotswold Order, We Met today our ritual shared At Roll Rights we could be Open in the present With blue skies flooding through Silhouetted trees around us And all those stones that drew Our every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/vernal-equinox-at-roll-rights\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26958,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26956\/revisions\/26958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}