{"id":2341,"date":"2026-07-02T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2025-spring\/?post_type=poems&#038;p=2341"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:00:22","slug":"bird-of-the-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"poems","link":"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2025-spring\/poems\/bird-of-the-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird of the Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2025-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imageedit_3_4641762991-1024x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2025-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imageedit_3_4641762991-1024x720.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2025-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imageedit_3_4641762991-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2025-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imageedit_3_4641762991-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2025-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imageedit_3_4641762991.jpg 1490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the cracked crust of the world,<br>In the kingdom of frost fire,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I trace the edges of order and anarchy,<br>Where glaciers rise like forgotten kings,<br>Their faces scored with age,<br>Their spires vanish into the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here, the blizzard bird soars,<br>Its wings are torn from cloud stuff,<br>Its cries a hymn of dissonance and harmony\u2014<br>The sound of a world dissolving<br>And remaking itself in the same breath.<br>It knows the places between worlds,<br>Where silence hums in shades of blue<br>And the echoes of Ice Age dreams linger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There, on the tundra\u2019s brittle skin,<br>A story unfolds in the language of frost:<br>Of starlight strung between shadows,<br>Of waters rising to swallow memories whole.<br>I see the descent of the bird,<br>A bright shard against the gathering dusk,<br>Diving into the heart of the storm,<br>And I follow, aching for emergence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The snow whispers truths<br>That bones alone can feel\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The edge of life\u2019s triumphs:<br>A sapling clawing through permafrost,<br>The last sigh of a dying glacier,<br>The first drip of meltwater<br>Turning ice into flow,<br>Stasis into motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bird of the blizzard,<br>Carry me to those distant places,<br>To the juncture where fading meets rebirth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Show me the map of your moving,<br>Each feather is a line of wonder.<br>Let us chase the shadowed blue of memory,<br>Until the winds unravel,<br>Until the earth breathes warmth again,<br>Until the song of starlight<br>Fills the silence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false},"class_list":["post-2341","poems","type-poems","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bird of the Blizzard - Roses &amp; Wildflowers Spring 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bird of the Blizzard - Roses &amp; Wildflowers Spring 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the cracked crust of the world,In the kingdom of frost fire, I trace the edges of order and anarchy,Where glaciers rise like forgotten kings,Their faces scored with age,Their spires vanish into the storm. 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