Reflections
By Dawn Van
Win
This Golden
age of treasures rare
A time to
grow a time to share
Your lessons
learnt with sweat and tears
So pause and
now release your fears
And drink it
in, this time and place
Where you are
now, your progress traced
Created by
your life so far
Upon this
spinning blue, green star
Then sifting
through this hard-won soil
Through 50
years of joy and toil
Time to
reflect, rejoice, refine
And gather in
all that is mine
To nurture it
and give it space
And raising
up a smiling face
To mother
moon to thank her so
for love and
light which helps us grow
She shines so
bright through deepest dark
Revealing
treasures in our hearts
We see the
way on from this place
So once we’re
rested, filled with Grace
We carry on,
refreshed, renewed
Another year,
all rainbow-hued
To turn the
soil, reveal new seeds
And watch
them grow
Follow their
lead
With courage,
perseverance too
Each cycle
time to learn anew
one of the beautiful murals at Diamante, Calabria - artist unknown
Copyright Dawn Van Win
A well crafted poem, one worthy of Coleridge Shelley & their ilk.
ReplyDeleteI love it and know it will be well received by others. 'Van Win' the new poet in town. Delightful!
A very profound and thoughtful poem. writing in rhyming couplets can be difficult if you are to avoid some of the words being "forced". you managed well although you had me thinking that you had promoted planet Earth into a star. I assume, however, you used star as an idiom. I like your use of a metaphor in the third stanza and yes! I think you are a good poet too. Just curious about the picture, is it the soul leaving the body or knowledge entering?
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