Solstice Suncups
These Suncups open to accept
The abundance of light
Summer solstice offers
On this longest day of the year
With lengthening of shadows
Pivoting momentum
on the long arc towards winter
Just as my teens final paper submitted at the deadline & school lets out for summer
Just as the new strawberries burst in my mouth
Just as the forgotten poppies show their faces like a long lost childhood friend & I feel the wiggle of skipping delight
Just as I honor the anniversary of my mothers death, with a dance & a poem As not a single day yet her years of disappearance with Alzheimer’s
The longest goodbye, still hugging me now
Just as the greenest lawn holding onto the generous rain of spring will turn brown soon
Just as the crow perched on my backyard threshold barks his story over & over to whomever will listen,
I am listening Summer Solstice
I hear you call out the change—
The silent slip over into waning light,
with your gifts of abundance
These Suncups open to accept the change
Whatever this day, this life brings
May I too be open to the grace of change
As open as breathing in, breathing out
As accepting as my cupped palms
As grateful as sunlight filing my heart
May I dance in silence with the ALL-of-It
Blessed be.
Happy Summer Solstice!