{"id":13002,"date":"2016-11-01T01:10:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T06:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=13654"},"modified":"2016-10-31T18:01:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T23:01:06","slug":"rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2016\/11\/01\/rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t\tA:link { so-language: zxx }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><i>\u00a0I Rose (from a \u00a0Hekate Meditation):\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My rose was blue<\/p>\n<p>I stepped beneath the arch<\/p>\n<p>My rose was gold<\/p>\n<p>Or peach<\/p>\n<p>Softness incarnate<\/p>\n<p>Never crimson<\/p>\n<p>Never bold<\/p>\n<p>Tentative like my<\/p>\n<p>Steps.<\/p>\n<p>I rose beneath the arch<\/p>\n<p>To meet four faces<\/p>\n<p>Framed with snake<\/p>\n<p>With sea<\/p>\n<p>With sinister teeth<\/p>\n<p>With chains<\/p>\n<p>With all the keys I need<\/p>\n<p>To break free.<\/p>\n<p>I rose and took<\/p>\n<p>The proffered seaweed<\/p>\n<p>Tiny bladders ready<\/p>\n<p>To pop with salty sweetness<\/p>\n<p>A shoreline promise<\/p>\n<p>Of things to come.<\/p>\n<p>I rose, hands out<\/p>\n<p>Filled with light;<\/p>\n<p>Stepping into darkness<\/p>\n<p>My rose was black<\/p>\n<p>Ashen; withered<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly alive again!<\/p>\n<p>Gold and glowing<\/p>\n<p>Snakebite antidote<\/p>\n<p>Starlight flowing<\/p>\n<p>I rose; I gasped; I smiled.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><i>Copyright Mabh Savage 2015. Mabh is the author of <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00EPQ7Y5O\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\">A Modern Celt: Seeking the Ancestors<\/a><i> and <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Pagan-Portals-Celtic-Witchcraft-Modern-ebook\/dp\/B01D27CBE0\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1477842009&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=pagan+portals+celtic+witchcraft\">Pagan Portals: Celtic Witchcraft<\/a><i>. Image credit Sumathi Sowmia via Wikimedia Commons.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I Rose (from a \u00a0Hekate Meditation):\u00a0 My rose was blue I stepped beneath the arch My rose was gold Or peach Softness incarnate Never crimson Never bold Tentative like my Steps. I rose beneath the arch To meet four faces Framed with snake With sea With sinister teeth With chains With all the keys I need To break free. I rose and took The proffered seaweed Tiny bladders ready To pop with salty sweetness A shoreline promise Of things to come. I rose, hands out Filled with light; Stepping into darkness My rose was black Ashen; withered Suddenly alive again! Gold and glowing Snakebite antidote Starlight flowing I rose; I gasped; I smiled. Copyright Mabh Savage 2015. Mabh is the author of A Modern Celt: Seeking the Ancestors and Pagan Portals: Celtic Witchcraft. Image credit Sumathi Sowmia via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}