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Yellow Lunar Seed
There is a Time of Year lies yawning---
Stretching the Space between Seasons
Days---Weeks of Promise when, depending on the Solstice
We stand between cold Dread and warm Anticipation---
There is a Time of Year that takes the plant Roots deep---
Makes its Moves from inner Signals
Cosmic Calls of ice-filled Lakes---
Frost---Cold---Wind---Snow and Rain
Skies of November resemble a Day in March
When Clouds give no Comfort or Promise of Warmth
Finally, winter loses Strength---
A Seed begins its brave invisible
Ascent to early Suns too pale for warming---
Only Faith supports our Skin and Bones
Now chilled and blue with Longing
For spring, the winter’s Damage to atone
That Time of Year lies shivering
While we, like Children, short-sighted
And burning with Desire cannot wait
For howling, whistling Winds
To blow away the old and bring upon the New
Autumnal Days of early spring are rude---
They tease and taunt without Remorse
That Time of Year too short to name until---
Azure fills a Sky of cotton Clouds---
Jonquil Petals open with the Violet
Green Grass quivers with the Flights of little Bees
Whose Legs are yellow Pollen laden
Daffodil sits up with Hyacinth upon the Hill
The Moth awakes to fly on parchment Wing
The Seasons turn---Gaia smiles---naming Spring.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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