Friday, February 4, 2011

First Light A poem of Imbolc and Candlemas

A flame appears, lit from within

It emerges, tender light

Upon snow and ice

Upon brown winter fields

Whose wan color hides

The busy roots beneath


On stem and branch

Buds thrust against the cold

The promise of leaf and flower

Its own warming reward


Potent waiting, energy storing

Nascent is the spring

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