Solstice Grove

A Solstice

The Tree Yew

Hangman Hangman

Beith Thy Fool

Robin Hood the masked crusader

Wield diamonds and frogs

A bamboo lance

Ivy twined

Inward

Guts and hearts and soul sparkles

Twang flickers the lightning bowstring

Sharp screams the falling star spear

A steady smooth hero

Marble already before his deed done

His quest conquered

Resonant

Angelic

Luminous bulbs sprout

And gather on the oak’s lance

Mistletoe moon pearls

Opalescent deity prankster Pan

Lyre sauntering Orpheus

Lakshmi blushes neath an apple bodhi

Whilst Krishna pangs and bards, darling to darling

Lover to lover

Soul to eternity

The spirit dance

Quiet now

Reflection

Mirror sky

Midnight cloak

For the gypsy wanderer

Little Red Riding Hood marries Robin Hood

And the forest nymphs clap, Diana riding Acteon

Puck holding hands with Titania

Macbeth and Hamlet smoking pipes

King Arthur and Odin tipping wine

Plato jotting notes

Picasso and Amaringo, the two Pablos, sketching the magic realm

This union inhabits

At last Little Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood

Mischief reign benevolent

Zeus smiles, Jesus nods

Thor laughs

Artemis curtsies

Oberon jealous, forever jealous that silly king

A Solstice they announce from the tree tops

Bright tree tops

Lantern lit fairies prance and skip

Leaf to bough to nest to canopy

Infinite elves salute the sacred coming together

A dragon upon peak rests in hidden bemoans

The night supreme, the chaos freedom

The revelry for until a Spring

And Little Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood, the bloodred robed wild witch
and green-chlorophyllic rambling rover
initiate with shared chalice, the kykeon shuttling the ancient source
imbued the lovers loving
the night ambles oblivion till the Springtime returnith
and the two chosen fade flashing and jingling and whirling and dizzy
merriment in the sacred wood
the night
of the
Solstice

Among the Yew grove

To see their party

Would be splendid

The danger we go jolly

To death we go arm in arm exstatic
the night to deepen our day