Poetry

Winter Solstice 2021

This cold solstice night my altar’s preparedwith evergreen boughs, offerings, candles, & prayers.Honoring Nature while anchored in lore’s ancient rites;hoping Spring’s warmth will follow these […]

December 21st, 2022 | Posted in Poetry

2022 Winter Solstice Poem

For months the nights have stretched e’er longer as rhythms grew slower and nature’s pace calmer. Since Samhaim the world-veils grow thin; our dreams deep, […]

December 21st, 2022 | Posted in General, Poetry

2020 Winter Solstice Poem

From time prehistoric this day has been tracked, as a portent of Spring, of the Sun’s timeless pactto return every year, after waning till scant,and […]

December 21st, 2020 | Posted in Poetry

2019 Solstice Poem

    A bright ember gleams ‘gainst the ebon sky-plain. Then, racing, emblazens a crimson frontier. Like wildfire devouring an arid terrain, Sol’s celestial ascent […]

December 20th, 2019 | Posted in Poetry

2018 Winter Solstice Poem

    A whirlwind of demands, a cyclone of time: Projects yank willy-nilly, a pressured paradigm, disrupting my rhythms, denying reason and rhyme. So my […]

December 22nd, 2018 | Posted in Poetry

2017 Winter Solstice Poem

    The waxing moon wafts in the span of cobalt In a stately gavotte ‘cross the shimmering vault With mindful reflection and prayer I […]

December 21st, 2017 | Posted in Poetry

2016 Winter Solstice Poem

  The oceanic tides, through ceaseless psalm, with daily ebb and flo bring balm to restless souls and worried hearts; Their sonorous symmetry a calm […]

December 20th, 2016 | Posted in Poetry

Winter Solstice 2015

From the first hint, a gleam, to writhing calyx of flame with rosy birth thus the year’s longest night wanes. Dawn-bud bursts into blossom: crimson, […]

December 21st, 2015 | Posted in Poetry

Winter Solstice 2014

  On rudderless barque from dream-filled dark I aimlessly drift from naught through currents & mind-shoals (some vague; others stark) to emerge into conscious thought. […]

December 22nd, 2014 | Posted in General, Poetry

Winter Solstice 2013

To cold, darkened day from dark sleep I awake; In the kitchen, tea, fruit, and small omelet partake. Yawning, shuffle to work in my office […]

June 25th, 2014 | Posted in General, Poetry