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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]