Mountainair Arts: Share your seasonal greetings and good wishes

Monday, December 24, 2007

Share your seasonal greetings and good wishes

Do you have seasonal greetings, blessings, good wishes, etc. (denomination of your choice) to share? Write them up - gift wrap with colors, fonts, quotes, links - whatever strikes your fancy and email them to vcrary@yahoo.com for me to post to blog.

Please note that graphics won't forward to blog unless already uploaded and online.

Our first shared greeting and seasonal good wish comes from Dale Harris and includes a poem, "Solstice Blessings"

Wishing you all a blessed solar new year! Dale

WINTER SOLSTICE

It is the shortest day,

the longest night

when wilding winds spill

from the mouths of forgotten gods

(they are often angry, raise up sand and grit,

grind out sleet and hail)

A night of wonder and magick,

sorcery and sacred observance.

A night of splendor

when rocks sing to colored shadows,

clouds cover hillsides, curl over mesas.

We are awestruck, breathless.

The moon lingers long here,

constellations come closer.

Water is always precious.

In times of drought, we drink from stars.

This land was never tamed,

the business of roads, of buildings

scarcely noticed.

We are transients, loosely stitched to it,

easily discarded.

When darkness comes on,

as in the balance of things it does,

this land rests, prays.

We are poised between the seasons now,

with revolutions, turnings, migrations.

This land loves the light,

welcomes its return,

opens itself to sun, to air.

Put a candle in the window,

hang a wreath of evergreen

then leave the safety of your home.

In the company of poets,

walk out on the open spaces

where coyote, hawk, wild horses live.

Join hands and hearts,

add your voice to theirs.

Sound praises to the four directions,

celebrate the sun's re-birth.

Dale Harris, poetdale@yahoo.com
2115 Aspen Avenue NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104
http://www.daleharrispoetry.com

Poetry & Music CD's http://www.cdbaby.com/all/daleharris
"Cibola Seasons", "Once We Were Winged" & "Like A Hummingbird"