Summer Solstice

by

Michael R. Gorman

The sun rises from his bed

Into his day of greatest power

The love prince Oengus Og

Gives way to Lugh the great Sun King.

The wise gaze of the Green Man

Sees in each green infant fruit

The coming grandeur of the harvest.

Cernunnos prances proudly

Between green stalks growing heavier with grain.

Adorned in the bright flowers of summer

Golden poppy and purple heather

The Goddess leaves her maidenhood

Behind and is become mother most blessed

Pregnant with the coming gifts.

The faeries make great merriment

Dancing, singing, playing

Darting between the worlds

Celebrating the fecundity

Of the divine.

The earth's crystals reflect

The piercing light of the sun's virility

And the candles wait unlit

Water and honey flow abundantly

And the rich fragrance of the air

Heralds the rising sword of the sun's potency

And the expectant chalice of the earth's womb.