{"id":25982,"date":"2022-06-01T01:10:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T05:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/?p=25982"},"modified":"2022-05-31T19:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:37:32","slug":"dancing-into-summer-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2022\/06\/01\/dancing-into-summer-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Into Summer – Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pick up your feet<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Your dancing feet<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even if you\u2019re stuck in one place<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even if you\u2019re body refuses<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Or simply can\u2019t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Close your eyes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Let your thoughts dance<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tap tap tapping down the corridors<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Of your mind<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Whirling in worlds<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Of soul and spirit<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sending your essence flying high<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Towards a domed ceiling<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Candelabras shaking <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Under the onslaught of joy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dance, dance, dance into summer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Heat waves a slave to the beat<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Solstice imbalance pouring<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Funk into the shadows<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Open the windows and<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fly, fly out into blue<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Into fluffy white<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Into thirsty, hot afternoons<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And giddy evenings<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sing, laugh, love<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Embrace the chaos that you can<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And tame the tendrils that you can\u2019t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Under the height of the sun<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Laying in fields of corn<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Racing through rows of sunflowers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Strawberry juice dripping<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Drip, drip, dripping<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Down chins<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As we dance<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Keep dancing<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Into Summer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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**Photo by Yair Mej\u00eda<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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**<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

About the Author:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mabh Savage<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is a Pagan author, poet and musician, as well as a freelance journalist and content creator. She\u2019s a nature-based witch, obsessed with Irish and British Paganism and Folklore, plus she\u2019s a massive plant nerd. She\u2019s also a long-time Hekate devotee and a newbie Lokean. She works extensively with the UK Pagan Federation, including editing their bi-annual children\u2019s magazine. Mabh is a passionate environmentalist and an advocate for inclusiveness and positive social transformation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mabh is the author of\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>A Modern Celt: Seeking the Ancestors<\/a>,<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Pagan Portals \u2013 Celtic Witchcraft: Modern Witchcraft Meets Celtic Ways<\/a>, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>and most recently, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Practically Pagan: An Alternative Guide to Planet Friendly Living<\/a>. <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Search \u201cMabh Savage\u201d on Spotify and @Mabherick on all socials.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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  Pick up your feet Your dancing feet Even if you\u2019re stuck in one place Even if you\u2019re body refuses Or simply can\u2019t Close your eyes Let your thoughts dance Tap tap tapping down the corridors Of your mind Whirling in worlds Of soul and spirit Sending your essence flying high Towards a domed ceiling Candelabras shaking Under the onslaught of joy Dance, dance, dance into summer Heat waves a slave to the beat Solstice imbalance pouring Funk into the shadows Open the windows and Fly, fly out into blue Into fluffy white Into thirsty, hot afternoons And giddy evenings Sing, laugh, love Embrace the chaos that you can And tame the tendrils that you can\u2019t Under the height of the sun Laying in fields of corn Racing through rows of sunflowers Strawberry juice dripping Drip, drip, dripping Down chins As we dance Keep dancing Into Summer.   **Photo by Yair Mej\u00eda on Unsplash   ** About the Author: Mabh Savage\u00a0is a Pagan author, poet and musician, as well as a freelance journalist and content creator. She\u2019s a nature-based witch, obsessed with Irish and British Paganism and Folklore, plus she\u2019s a massive plant nerd. She\u2019s also a long-time Hekate devotee and a newbie Lokean. She works extensively with the UK Pagan Federation, including editing their bi-annual children\u2019s magazine. Mabh is a passionate environmentalist and an advocate for inclusiveness and positive social transformation. Mabh is the author of\u00a0A Modern Celt: Seeking the Ancestors,\u00a0\u00a0Pagan Portals \u2013 Celtic Witchcraft: Modern Witchcraft Meets Celtic Ways, and most recently, Practically Pagan: An Alternative Guide to Planet Friendly Living. Search \u201cMabh Savage\u201d on Spotify and @Mabherick on all socials.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10004],"tags":[11188,13755,10426,10227,10263,11926,13756,10055],"class_list":["post-25982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-columns","tag-dance","tag-feelings","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-solstice","tag-summer","tag-sunflowers","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25982","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=25982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26527,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25982\/revisions\/26527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}