Today I want to share with you a blessed poem I found, by Cindy Marsch at Wrasselings. There is no photo I could post that would provide a worthy accompanying image, and it hardly needs help in conveying the metaphor.
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In Spring the Earth bends and melts toward the South,
Gathering the orb of sunrise in her left hand,
Then passing it along her breast, warming herself,
Until she lays it gently among the bare trees at dusk
And basks in the rosy glow chilled blue at the edge.
The days warm as she lifts her orb-passing hands higher and higher,
‘Til over her head she brandishes fire,
Stretched to utmost peak,
Dazzling the fat green grown full all about her.
Her midsummer glory she cannot sustain,
But slowly limits the extent of her reach.
Day by dog day,
The sun’s heat parches,
The dusty summer wearies.
Then, arms outstretched, she relinquishes her hold:
Drawn down toward heavy harvest,
The sun’s blazes graze the trees.
Spent with the year, she lets go her hands,
And the dawn orb and dusk roll down to her feet.
Still, she waits, spent, chill,
Almost dead with the year.
But a freshet stirs, and calls her to listen.
And again she bends down, melting toward the South.
—Cindy Marsch
