Solar Soliloquy

You’ve noticed how our mood’s affected

By the sun? We feel connected

To life, to others and revive,

How good it is to be alive!

 

Depression, caused by dark and mist

Melts away when we’re sun-kissed;

Nature’s seedlings start to crawl

As shadows lengthen on the wall.

 

Once the Feast of Candlemas is past

Groundhog Day then follows fast

Winter’s grip becomes less tight

Optimism now burns bright.

 

Hope, still warmly dressed, appears

She gladdens hearts, love in arrears

Four minutes’ extra sun each day!

Lacklustre cobwebs swept away.

 

Life isn’t perfect, but we feel

Sun in this crazy world is real

While politics may disappoint

Spring is never out of joint!

(c) Poet in the woods 2023