Pagan Imagination: Latest Poetry Publication

I didn't really know where to put this post, but wanted to share this news with you guys and make those here who write Pagan/Wicca/Satanism friendly fiction or poetry aware of this site.

My poem "Winged Daughter of Lucifer" and a few others have been picked up by the new e-zine Pagan Imagination. "Winged Daughter of Lucifer" appears in their first edition.

To read, click here and scroll to the bottom of the page.

Sweet! Congrads to those that are developing!

Wow very nice. Congratulations Hydra!

Thanks guys! I thought it was sort of cool considering my highest goal for my poetry for quite awhile has been posting it in my blog and here on the forums.

Again! Sweet! I am glad you are getting the recognition you have been working for! I for one am proud of you!

Sorry, Hydra, but I am going to pick on you -

All right, all right - BREAK IT UP.

Sorry to spoil your parade, Hydra, but what you have done is no different than someone else writing some new verse to "Amazing Grace" and getting it printed in the next "Baptist Message." I mean, it is an accomplishment, but a religious piece is a religious piece. How about getting something published in a real poetry journal.

Note that the above is not really mean, or could be - I haven't really decided. I have relatives that wished I would write Christian fiction. I could, and I could get it published, but it would go nowhere. I would get some "Praise the Lord"s and such, but it would go down as just one more piece of writing towards the infinite. It finally came down to the simple fact that I would rather discuss my fantasy stories with God than some silly gratuity piece that he probably has read trillions of. I don't know the depth of your religious fervor, although I respect you for having some. I respect you for gaining some recognition from those of your religious identity.

I guess that I am just trying to say more than simple "Well done." Sorry if doesn't sound like it. Anyway, WELL DONE.

TerishD, you aren't spoiling my parade but a couple of your points are just a little off.

For one the owner/editor of the site is not "of my religious identity". She's Pagan, and her putting together this magazine that is Wiccan, Pagan, and Satanism friendly fiction could more accurately be compared to a Jewish, Muslim, and Christian friendly publication then one merely targeting the Baptist. Basically, it's a Hell of a big umbrella covering a lot of folks that in many cases loath one another and I really have to tip my hat to her for trying to make it all get along.

Two, I don't think it's fair to say all religious pieces are all equal or that they will automatically go no where. Granted it's harder for such fiction or other media to cross over into the mainstream, but if the piece is really good and/or is marketed correctly it can and does happen. Look at the summer movie list and you'll see Brown's "Angels and Devils" has also now been made into a film, there for awhile you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing the song "I can only imagine", and of course from Satanism we had Marilyn Manson's many hits before that and I can't tell you how often a week I see a sticker, poster, or t-shirt baring the artwork of Coop... there are of course other classical examples of great religious art and literature, but I won't get into that.

But you are right, it's not a big of an accomplishment as getting into one of the big poetry journals, but then I've never really enjoyed those sorts of publications and haven't ever tried to get into one. I sort of take the view of them that you do of most big market fantasy fiction.

That was a better tirade than I expected. I am heading to a meeting with another school superintendant about a job tomorrow, and was itching from my 'be nice' mantra when I decided to vent on you. Sorry about considering you fair territory, but I would rather be ranted upon by someone that I consider a friend. It is out of my system now. I should get the job tomorrow (I will let you know).

I have never been certain if the market is forgiving or simply willfully ignorant. I remember the good Christians around me singing "Bridge over Troubled Waters" when it was really about drugs. They might be liking those things you mention because of something other than their pagan origins. Still, you need a message in some form. I will not fault you for having a deeper cause than most.

Thank you for being nice, and I will be nice by again wishing you the best.

Oh, Hydra, just letting you know that the job should be mine. The only problem with the superintendant and the principal is that I am an upper-level high school person and they want somebody for middle-school. I am certified, and I am somebody actually wanting to settle in the area. They thus said that if a middle-school science person does not show up (and the odds are that they won't -- being very rural), then the job is mine.

My attitude was right. Thanks again for being nice when I vented.

It's not a problem, you get special allowances because I like you, and I'm glad to hear you'll likely be getting the job. Sometimes rural schools can be fun, having grownup on a farm I was a rural school student for many years. Just be prepared for your students expecting hunting season and harvest time being valid reasons for being tardy or to be excused from doing homework.

I can understand wicca friendly fiction, although Wicca is a form of Paganism anyway, much like Witchcraft. Celtic, Druidism, Odinism, Germanic and Scandinavian, Mediterranean, Native American blah blah blah, so saying wicca AND pagan friendly doesn't make much sense. But, Satanism alongside Paganism I would have thought would've been a big no no as many Christians or whatnot get the two confused to such extents they call the pentacle evil when its the inverted pentacle that's the symbol of Satanism. I don't see the connection between the two seeing as Satanism was formed as a jab at Christianity and the variations of such, where as Paganism covers most, if not all, beliefs and cultures and practices that existed pre-Christianity.

But, that's just my opinion LOL

Oh I see, you're a Satanic Witch, very cool.

Did you know that the real Lucifer of the bible was actually a tyrannous babylonian king that the founders of Christianity mistook to be the devil? And even Lucifer as a deity was first named by the Greeks for the name of Planet Venus as seen in the morning? Hence Lucifer - Light bearer/bringer, or Morning Star.

I've read the Satanic bible, and as fun as it was, it just wasn't for me LOL