Solstice Plus

Stonehenge at the Solstice

(Originally posted June 2013)

 

today we tilt
staring straight into
the year’s highmost
face of the sun
abolishing night
in the arctics
granting to cancer and middles
our longest of days
for worshipping light
genuflecting our eyes
before mystical splendors
of lingering earthly spectacles

then pausing
to draw in a
deep greening breath

we’ll look to the heavens
inviting a skyway for
advent of glorious
perigee moon

Summer Solstice

“Summer Solstice” by kancano

daylight stretched

to its maximum arc

blue expanse

existential of heaven

enjoying its lengthiest

lease on the year as

the hemisphere tilts

with a nod to the sun

this slow moment

this tipping point

turning the temporal

path of progression

for one half the globe

in a wide warming

curve toward the

center of summer

Hibernalium

“Winter Solstice Landscape”
Painting by Carol Nelson
From dailypaintersabstract.blogspot.com

sun at a gallop
pulling the earliest night
down behind it