{"id":15400,"date":"2017-12-01T01:10:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=16400"},"modified":"2017-11-27T20:24:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T01:24:19","slug":"life-as-a-christmas-cactus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/12\/01\/life-as-a-christmas-cactus\/","title":{"rendered":"(life as a christmas cactus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16401\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XmasCactusPoem-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">i was thinking about a dream i once had &amp; realized it really<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">happened: smooth green elevens everywhere dancing to a laughing song<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">memories masquerading as dreams: my life in crystal darkness but<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">the moon tells another story: a wonderful obliteration<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">once upon a time there was a little girl who liked to sit on the<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">bridge: moon on the water: constellations that create stories to tell<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">when the moon is full the flowers bloom at night &amp; sing the nocturnal<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">sun: pink petals peeling away from the bright yellow perimeter<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">three times three plus two dream divided by dream squared equals a new dream<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">memory moon stars sun: clouds rain thunder &amp; lightning rolling over<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&amp; over again \u2026 oh! here is mary queen of scots riding a white<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">horse through the mists of my mind: she has something important<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">to tell me: commands in french &amp; scots &amp; latin &amp; then she is gone<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">but no matter: i am dreaming i am blooming shiny pink petals<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>***<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>About the Author:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16163\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Polly-1-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Polly MacDavid<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b>lives in Buffalo, New York at the moment but that could easily change, since she is a gypsy at heart. Like a gypsy, she is attracted to the divinatory arts, as well as camp fires and dancing barefoot. She has three cats who all help her with her magic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Her philosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly based in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan and she is solitary.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">She blogs at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/silverapplequeen.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">silverapplequeen.wordpress.com<\/a>. She writes about general life, politics and poetry. She is writing a novel about sex, drugs and recovery.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; i was thinking about a dream i once had &amp; realized it really happened: smooth green elevens everywhere dancing to a laughing song memories masquerading as dreams: my life in crystal darkness but the moon tells another story: a wonderful obliteration once upon a time there was a little girl who liked to sit on the bridge: moon on the water: constellations that create stories to tell when the moon is full the flowers bloom at night &amp; sing the nocturnal sun: pink petals peeling away from the bright yellow perimeter three times three plus two dream divided by dream squared equals a new dream memory moon stars sun: clouds rain thunder &amp; lightning rolling over &amp; over again \u2026 oh! here is mary queen of scots riding a white horse through the mists of my mind: she has something important to tell me: commands in french &amp; scots &amp; latin &amp; then she is gone but no matter: i am dreaming i am blooming shiny pink petals &nbsp; *** About the Author: &nbsp; Polly MacDavid\u00a0lives in Buffalo, New York at the moment but that could easily change, since she is a gypsy at heart. Like a gypsy, she is attracted to the divinatory arts, as well as camp fires and dancing barefoot. She has three cats who all help her with her magic. Her philosophy about religion and magic is that it must be thoroughly based in science and logic. She is Dianic Wiccan and she is solitary. She blogs at\u00a0silverapplequeen.wordpress.com. She writes about general life, politics and poetry. She is writing a novel about sex, drugs and recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15400","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}