WINTER SOLSTICE 2023 ELEMENTS

 

Started with a tree

Grown from a Walmart wannabe

Decorated with ball and ribbon, you see

Planted it on Spring Equinox with herb tea

Thanks, EARTH, dug from the road called Santee

 

Days before, AIR so stormy

Gusts 50 miles screaming like a Banshee

Yet my meager decorations oh, such cheapies

Managed to hang on without a whimper, staggeringly

Sending the message “Be brave” to very-worried me

 

Then WATER rained down like a lost sea

Buckets needed inside for that roof so leaky

Yet from past experience I knew what would be

Rainwater: loved by plants, the gardener’s key

And then it stopped, seemingly easily

 

And the clouds cleared up so I didn’t flee

Watching the FIRE spiritually

My face and arms osmosising lots of Vitamin D

The Sun Stood Still admiringly

As Winter Solstice set all living things free…

 

Healthy & Happy Winter Solstice Northern Hemisphere Friends

Healthy & Happy Summer Solstice Southern Hemisphere Friends

 

© 2023 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)

IMAGE:  Almost-decorated outdoor tree