Day 9’s prompt for Poetry Pub’s November Poem a Day Challenge is “solstice.”

This sonnet is a tribute to all the Poetry Pub Poets who have been such an encouragement and blessing over many years. They have show me kindness and hospitality that has been life giving. And I am a grateful to the Lord for them. Write on, poets. Your words enchant and are being used in the work of Him Who Makes All Things New.

You may listen to me read the poem via the player below.

I trust you poets whom I have heard
To dis-spell darkness with your words
I’ll follow your lead to the darkest day
I’ll hear and believe all you’ve to say.
About the ills of the wicked and bad—
The grief of trauma and loss, the sad
which you beat into golden, lined-welds
Which binds together all the broken we’ve held.

And I hope to be the first to cheer
When gathered on blankets neath trees to hear
All the poems you’ve prayed, how their mending
Worked to bring high-summer — this never-ending
Solstice where in The Park, the Spirit’s breeze
Blows healing that falls as light on the leaves.

© Randall Edwards 2023