Solstice - December 2013
The world has turned and cycles repeated
across millennia draw our precious
home to that point of space and time where we
the greatest of its children celebrate
the beginning and the end of seasons.
Twice in the solar year the transition
is rejoiced in, at the opposite ends
of our blue green and life bestowing world.
Crowds gather and the light meets joyous hearts
in praise of what has been and what will come.
In the north the Hibernal solstice
sends the seasonal pulse of ice and snow south.
Freezing blue the arctic ice and dressing
tundra and pine in wedding gowns for Spring
to remove with those first sun warmed kisses.
In the south it is Estival solstice,
where heat and drought vie with monsoonal rains.
Everything grows and flowers and fruits
in that fervent embrace with heat and light
before the cooling ardour of autumn.
Around this pregnant belly of a world
myriad's of people join in ancient
ceremonies to share, give and ponder
meanings and stories and futures not yet
formed in mind or soul yet already bought.
Most songs fall on deaf ears as old and poor
are left behind in the human rush to
award each other with gifts unneeded,
drugs unsuitable, food uneatable
amid average lives intolerable.
Where; the gem of quiet contemplation
within those moments between sacred thoughts;
wherein secrets of life lie waiting to
be unwrapped from the tree of eternal
life, evolving, evolving, evolving.
