{"id":39730,"date":"2018-12-21T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=39730"},"modified":"2018-12-22T10:07:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T10:07:41","slug":"a-faerie-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-faerie-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A faerie story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRom 1650 to 1850<br \/>\nThe White Hart coaching Inn<br \/>\nServiced the routes from<br \/>\nBath and Bridgewater<br \/>\nCreating quite a din<br \/>\nThe stables at the rear<br \/>\nWhere the horses took their rest<br \/>\nWhen all of that was torn down<br \/>\nAnd the Assembly room<br \/>\nThought best<\/p>\n<p>Along with shops for retail<br \/>\nSo from 1864<br \/>\nThe Assembly rooms began<br \/>\nTo ply their trade<br \/>\nAnd what is more<br \/>\nTroubadors from around about<br \/>\nCame to perform and they<br \/>\nAlong with the likes of George Bernard Shaw<br \/>\nAnd Thomas Hardy<br \/>\nIn his way<br \/>\nT.E. Lawrence and Alice Buxton<br \/>\nThe rich and famous all<br \/>\nEntertained the audiences<br \/>\nClose to the Abbey Wall<\/p>\n<p>And its been thriving ever since<br \/>\nAnd over the solstice we<br \/>\nCan experience the eco eclectic spacegoats<br \/>\nAnd ofcourse they be<br \/>\nWith the dulcimer and mandola<br \/>\nBazouki,  bells and chimes<br \/>\nTribal drums and droning<br \/>\nThe mood is raised and it climbs<br \/>\nInto the hearts and minds<br \/>\nOf all<br \/>\nWho come to listen they<br \/>\nCan absorb the medieval<br \/>\nAnd the magickal they say<\/p>\n<p>The reflective and the dreamy<br \/>\nAs if a spells intent<br \/>\nThe sagacious and the watchful<br \/>\nBards and minstrels lent<br \/>\nTheir syncopation and carrolings<br \/>\nTo a  mystic sphere<br \/>\nThe Spacegoats at full throttle<br \/>\nAre bound to bring a tear<br \/>\nAs the lighting draws the lustre<br \/>\nTo a  dazzling display<br \/>\nOf the softest pigmentation<br \/>\nHeliotropes up and away<\/p>\n<p>In this aura of activity<br \/>\nThe fae can often be<br \/>\nApparent to the consciousness<br \/>\nDancing somewhat free<br \/>\nThe melodies the impact<br \/>\nAnd the energy they share<br \/>\nMedieval manifestations<br \/>\nCan be everywhere<\/p>\n<p>The child of the Fae is joining them<br \/>\nHer voice has notes of calm<br \/>\nSummoning the solstice<br \/>\nWith sweet echoes and pure charm<br \/>\nThe witching hour the harvest notes<br \/>\nThe seasonal embrace<br \/>\nA voice hangs in a distant wood<br \/>\nAnd the paleness of her face<br \/>\nDraws that avid spirit<br \/>\nFor hear this maiden sigh<br \/>\nCyclic  and pulsating<br \/>\nSuch a sweetness on the eye<\/p>\n<p>This energy apparent<br \/>\nA story being told<br \/>\nA certain vulnerablity<br \/>\nIn all of this you are rolled<br \/>\nUnconscious for the melodies<br \/>\nFortuitously create<br \/>\nA story that will honour<br \/>\nA story to relate<br \/>\nA healing the endeavour<br \/>\nThe potentiality<br \/>\nAnd with it comes a staying power<br \/>\nin the ascendancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRom 1650 to 1850 The White Hart coaching Inn Serviced the routes from Bath and Bridgewater Creating quite a din The stables at the rear Where the horses took their rest When all of that was torn down And the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-faerie-story\/\">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":[25,200],"tags":[375],"class_list":["post-39730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethereal-poems","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft","tag-fae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39730","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=39730"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39738,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39730\/revisions\/39738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}