Summer Solstice

This was when the whole world measured time
This is when the light would turn around
This is where the past would come undone
and the spinning earth will mark a new beginning

Let's go back in time, to when it all began
To the breaking of new dawns
Where moments bright with fire, would light the chanting song

Where pagans worshipped sun, and danced among the trees
Wore strange masks of covered straw, and blessed cold ash with awe

Wreaths hung upon the door against all spirit's, dire 
and when the winter's grasp let go, the sun reversed the pyre

This was when the whole world measured time
This is when the light would turn around
So that spring arrives, and seeds will sprout and grow

Oh, radiant sun, stretch the day, shorten night
Return earth's darkness into light
This is where the light will turn around
And this was where the past would come undone


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5/26/16 Summer Solstice Contest Sponsored by Shadow Hamilton

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Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 5/27/2016 6:03:00 AM

Awesome poems like this are why you are at the top of best loved poems Carrie. You get your facts straight...ducks in a row so to speak...then you post a poem like this we all can admire! I loved it and am sure to see it at the top! #7 ; )

Frederic Parker

Date: 5/26/2016 7:37:00 PM

beautiful line...this was when the whole world measured time..it set the whole tone of your poem which was written in a way that lets me think you are a history buff..you captured the time..the only thing missing was a reference to Stonehenge or the Druids...good luck in the contest...you should do well