HALLOWEEN LEGEND

LEGEND OF THE FIRST
MERRY HOLLOW THANKSMAS

One dark and stormy night…

Out on the lawn there arose such a clatter
zombies were mooning
to children who scatter

When what to their wondering eyes did appear
a trick-or-treat turkey quite stuffed through the rear;
yet they hear

him exclaim as he gobbles in fright,
“Scary Thanksmas to all
                   this dark stormy night!”

©2015  Gobblin’ Merry Hollows  stephaniepope mythopoetry.com

Christmas Moon: (de)Light In The Window

from the future book, "For The Love of A Woman"

Here is an excerpt from the essay.

The solstice is that night with the shortest day of whom the virgin and child by analogy render and re-story. And this means the full moon on the 31st will be filled with the gentler sun, the Mary, meek and mild who, transfigured, shines through the window of our times the first day of the New Year likened unto flowing light. This light is the Mary of the in-most life who brings once more to our lives the vision of the divinely human spiritualized mixture, our ‘giant’ being of inmost delight composed in two substances and one light

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Blue Christmas: The Red & Black of This Year’s Capitol Tree

I heard this year's Washington D.C. Capitol Tree is an 85 foot blue spruce from the White Mountains of Arizona. Decorations may very well be red on a green Christmas tree but this year's 'green' is blue. We'll have a blue Christmas when the national tree is lit on Thanksgiving Day.

It is the first black presidency. It is the first blue spruce to be gifted the nation from Arizona since 1964. And, the tree comes from the redlands of the White Mountains sacred to the Apache who preside over its cutting ceremony and who accompany it on its long journey to Washington. Something sacred has occurred. Read more