{"id":38539,"date":"2017-08-05T20:57:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38539"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:57:31","slug":"cosmic-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/cosmic-twelve\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Church bells chime longest, resonating fullest at hour twelve,<\/span><\/p>\n

reminding us to pause, gather, or simply look up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cinderella\u2019s slippers remained enchanted come midnight,<\/span><\/p>\n

allowing her escape from servitude and despair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Childhood’s year before thirteen marks a bittersweet passage<\/span><\/p>\n

from innocence to responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stars guide our actions with zodiac signs ordered<\/span><\/p>\n

for each year’s passing phases while<\/span><\/p>\n

We embrace symbols of ourselves<\/span><\/p>\n

in Asian astrology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Such is the Cosmic Order of\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1X12, 2X6, 3X4 with logical, progressive complexity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do we blindly judge and blame in a fearful Witching Hour<\/span><\/p>\n

In our juries of twelve?<\/span><\/p>\n

Universal patterns pale to the power within us.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Church bells chime longest, resonating fullest at hour twelve, reminding us to pause, gather, or simply look up. Cinderella\u2019s slippers remained enchanted come midnight, allowing her escape from servitude and despair. Childhood’s year before thirteen marks a bittersweet passage from innocence to responsibility. Stars guide…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38779,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38539\/revisions\/38779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}