<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460224" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Solstice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This year,21 December is the crucial day: <br>Earth, Sun, in their ancient dance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do they need our help? <br>The day, here in the North, shrinking; <br>what should be, if any, our concern? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Offer up our Christmas gifts<br>to beg exchange for longer days? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hold vigil at Stonehenge, <br>believing that all our being, <br>all our attention, is what we owe, <br>to earn a daylight that<br>may not continue on the morrow<br>to shrink to eternal darkness? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feel so small, as we contemplate<br>The mysteries of the universe? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feel so great, as we participate<br>in so vast a system? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or just, a private moment’s awe, <br>then back to Christmas obligations? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How quick we’ll be, though, <br>to note the day’s few bonus minutes<br>in a week or two – post-Christmas gift<br>that was delayed in some almighty post; <br>secretly, we’re sure that we deserve it; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">yet, a lifting of the heart, while we forget<br>December’s heaviness.<br>I have not mentioned love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460224" data-title="Solstice de Michael Shepherd" data-description="This year,21 December is the crucial day: Earth, Sun, in their ancient dance. Do they need our help? The day, here in the North, shrinking; what should be, if any, our concern? Offer up our Christmas gifts to beg exchange for longer days? ..."></div> </div> </div>

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