Bring Yourself to This Day ~ a plein air poem for the Summer Solstice

Bring Yourself to This Day

                                     for the Summer Solstice
 

This Solstice Day,

re-generous day.

Of new Summering,

good Naturing.

The sun so greatly

lengthening. 

The trees

so freely dancing,

in ever deeper,

ever greener ecstasies.

The clouds caressing

the open skies, 

and dotting the eyes

of sailors

and mountaineers,

painters and

sonneteers. 

The waters of lakes

and rivers, firths

and fjords, bays

and sounds, clear 

and mirroring.

Bring yourself,

your whole nature,

bodifully, 

spiritly ~

as bountifully,

to this day

of balance and

beauty,

dalliance

and euphony

between

the boundless

heavens and the

re-turning earth; 

with a lightening

heart and long,

lengthening breath.


 

Colin Goedecke

Morristown, New Jersey

June 21st, 2018

A Day the Sun Stood Still ~ a plein air poem for the summer solstice

A Day the Sun Stood Still

                  for this summer solstice

Today.

A day unlike any other,

past or future.

Not because the sun will stand

still, at the Tropic of Cancer,

then reverse

its northerly arc

and head radiantly south,

toward the Tropic of Capricorn.

Not because a full moon,

a native, votive Strawberry Moon

will, just once

in most of our lifetimes,

rise on the same plane.

Today is a day unlike any other

because it’s a new day

of light, lightness; 

rareness, wonder

open to one, to all. 

A day where our own stillness

can greatly illuminate.

Where we can choose

to move likewise;

clock-or-counterclockwise,

in phenomenal directions.

Can invoke a fresh season, 

infusion, green summer of self; 

bring ripening

to our life seeds,

fruits, vines, visions;

connect more deeply,

simply to the earth;

to the purely elemental

shining inside, around

and above us.

Colin Goedecke

On the Summer Solstice,

at the Loantaka Brook Reservation

Convent Station, New Jersey

June 20, 2016