Solstice Solace
The sun has strolled across the horizon for six months. Long enough.
Growing weary from the travel, its arc grew shallow
as if the gravity of the horizon increased its pull, leaving us cold and without hope.
Huddled indoors from the chilled darkness, we sun worshippers
mope in our melancholy and shiver with sadness.
.
When the sun finally turns an about-face and paces back from its forth,
like a beaten hero rising again, just when all hope was lost,
our fiery idol again strives for higher peaks over the horizon.
We weepy accountants of time mark the day and prepare a celebration
of light to cheer our escape from the swallowing darkness.
The setting of a season
Celebrate with light
December 18th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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December 18th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I like it. I also like the picture and the caption the setting of a season
December 20th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Lovely. Thanks for sharing.
December 21st, 2009 at 3:56 pm
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