{"id":3459,"date":"2012-10-05T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2012-10-05T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T17:11:04","slug":"ethel-reel-maiden-of-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/ethel-reel-maiden-of-the-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethel Reel maiden of the forest"},"content":{"rendered":"

With her amethyst stone
\nand her Indian Bells
\nThe maid of the forest
\nwhere else she dwells
\nfloats like a kind
\nof apparition
\nclearly on a healing
\nmission
\npurple leggings, purple bodice
\nsome call her the purple goddess
\ncalm and thoughtful
\nmindful too
\nof wild one’s and
\nall that they do
\nforaging avidly
\nroaming free
\nthis is the life
\nbut its solitary
\nunder the trees
\non October days
\nwhen the wind blows
\ncruel
\nand has cutting ways
\nit chills ones
\nears and freezes
\none’s nose
\nand stiffen the legs
\nI do suppose
\nbut its then when she
\ncomes with her bags
\nof food
\nrings her bells
\nshe won’t intrude
\nwithout calling first
\nand casting light
\nfrom her amethyst stone
\nthe refraction, right
\ndiadems float
\nthis way and that
\nand from the forest
\nthe wild folk at
\nher beck and call
\ncome running they
\nlike to be patted by her
\neach day
\nand so do I, its of course
\na thrill
\nfor Ethyl Reel
\nhas such appeal
\nher hands so soft
\ndespite the way
\nshe works
\nso smooth as the
\nwhitest clay
\nher heart is warm
\nher ways so fine
\nI know I wish that she
\nwas mine
\nbut she’s a maiden
\nof the forest dells
\nthe maiden who rings
\nher clearing bells
\nshe carries her amethyst stone
\naloft
\nand the rainbows create
\na mood so soft
\nlike a moonlit night
\nlike a fresh spring cloud
\nlike a snowflake
\nrichly she’s endowed
\nand the wild one’s know
\nand they just appear
\nfrom the thickets of thorns
\nthat all hunters fear
\nto the tall birch trees
\nwhere the leaves of gold
\ncascade down on paths
\nand gently hold
\ncountenance to those
\nspirits who
\nlove the work that the maidens do
\ngo out in the forest
\nwhen all is quiet
\nring their bells
\nhowever slight
\nbuffeted by the
\nharshest of hail
\nthat chill their bones
\nas they follow the trail
\ntender and loving
\ndraws the crowd
\nand clearly these gal’s
\ncan stand up proud<\/p>\n

Ethyl Reel she leads them all
\nshe is positively lovely
\nand has a call
\nLike a nightingale
\nand a song thrush who
\nhave joined together
\nto try and woo
\nanother possibly off some tree
\nwith a “whoo whoo” here
\nand a “look its me”
\nEthyl Reel no one compares
\nand the fact that her time and food
\nshe shares
\nwith the wild tousled, has to be
\na calling described as heavenly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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