{"id":32187,"date":"2017-02-03T22:55:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T22:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=32187"},"modified":"2017-02-03T23:03:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T23:03:34","slug":"magickal-snowdrops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/02\/magickal-snowdrops\/","title":{"rendered":"Magickal Snowdrops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the mists comes the white souls of Imbolc<br \/>\nA spectre of ermine and fresh fallen snow<br \/>\nTis  there where the faeries would dance in the morning<br \/>\nBefore the light comforts the path where I go<\/p>\n<p>As gentle as any young dancer on tip toe<br \/>\nWho faithfully lifts up her arms to the sky<br \/>\nSteady and balanced in glorious movement<br \/>\nSent by the breezes that blow from on high<\/p>\n<p>With tresses of green confounding the infinite<br \/>\nAnd a perfection transcending us all<br \/>\nSurpassing all others creating the perfect<br \/>\nWith all of her accoutrements very much now on call<\/p>\n<p>Imbolc does herald the spirit of Brigid<br \/>\nThe entireness and wholeness of harmony&#8217;s bond<br \/>\nThis great bunch of joyousness breaks through the frost to<br \/>\nDeliver its message before I abscond<\/p>\n<p>That was their debut their initiation<br \/>\nAlmost esoteric as to why they are here<br \/>\nThe rawness of Winter their race ever skywards<br \/>\nHoping to enter the light of the year<\/p>\n<p>Their newness is evident virginal innocence<br \/>\nNow comes to mind<br \/>\nFrom the cold earth they forced their way<br \/>\nInto the moment<br \/>\nA new generation of beauty we find<\/p>\n<p>The eyes of the druid the witch and the keen ones<br \/>\nSpotted the first tips of greenery where<br \/>\nThe vigour and drive was created and ready<br \/>\nTo champion growth and to honourably share<\/p>\n<p>The emotion of looking of seeing and caring<br \/>\nFor all these young sentinels coming to see<br \/>\nThe fresh flush of pink faces cold noses old posies<br \/>\nMade joyful having regard for the snowdrops that be<\/p>\n<p>Standing together february&#8217;s fervour intense and strenuous<br \/>\nInfluenced by<br \/>\nThe impulse on imbolc<br \/>\nThe lambs coiled and leaping<br \/>\nWith their magnetism sent down from the sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the mists comes the white souls of Imbolc A spectre of ermine and fresh fallen snow Tis there where the faeries would dance in the morning Before the light comforts the path where I go As gentle as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/02\/magickal-snowdrops\/\">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-32187","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\/32187","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=32187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32191,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32187\/revisions\/32191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}