Twice: A Sunday Poem

Twice

Sweet divide – a balanced egg

Is the Equinox test

With dark night the same length

Worldwide

Extending to black galaxy’s mystery

Inner and outer shadow now shortened

But love lengthened and strengthened

Stretching beyond what light there is in darkness

Is the same as the darkness that is in light

The shadows cast by light lengthening

Same as love

And so the egg stands or falls.

Broken open to divine possibility,

Whole or broken

We step into shadows,

Up and down scrambled by precarious forces

Never arriving, no beginning, no end, rolling wheel

Somehow still and straight,

Two times each year

Eggs will stand on end

And twice a year core forces lend ballast, support.

Two makes three;

We leap easy,

Heaven, Earth and us in between, all turning. 

The above is a poem created by a group of island poets during a "Renga" gathering organized by Martha's Vineyard Seasonal Poet Laureate, Rachel Baird at Pathways. This poem is about the Spring Equinox. Rachel currently divides her time between Middlebury, Vermont and the island of Martha's Vineyard, where she has been writing for the past twelve years. Inclined towards poetry since childhood, her first Haiku was published in elementary school. During college she co-edited “The Literary Humanist,” an annual poetry publication. She is also an artist being raised in San Francisco on the pabulum of the west coast literary and art renaissance.

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