A thought occurs on this grim day:
At Easter – who
will go away,
Join friends
and family in the park
Or in some
other way impart
A bumper dose
of ‘Joie de Vivre’
Because this
last is what we need?
After 40 days
the ‘Paschal feast’
Will bring to Lenten
times release!
I ponder on
this bygone name:
Proud Pagan lore still states its claim
That Easter from ‘Eostre’ derives
Hence our Dawn Goddess
still survives
As harbinger to
our Northern Spring!
Early
Christians loved the ring
Of this ancient
core belief
With its wealth
of meaning underneath…
The Roman
Church took her aboard;
So, with the flowering
of the sward
The Resurrection
came to mean
The risen Christ plus all things green!
(c) Poet in the woods 2021
Eostre - Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Dawn
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