//------------------------------// // The Equestrian Year Part II // Story: My Little Poems - Ponies with Metal // by Lectuiae //------------------------------// THE EQUESTRIAN YEAR ~ PART II ~ From Winter Days to a Waking Spring A White Winter Day Wake up, before you'll sleep over the day Window lanes shine cold, chilling frost having touched the glass Overnight drifts piled, form walls on the garden Where the fresh snow has gathered Town casts a shade on a first peak of sunlight Town in slumber on this calm winter morning Children run past the school house A store closed for the day A time for family Nature untouched, still in its peace Trees naked of leaves, snowy veil their dress Critters asleep The migrated birds left their homes for the south See the white world, the place she calls home There the friends were now gathered To play in a winter scene: Let's have a snowball fight! Let's build a fabulous snowmare Why won't we go to the lake; Weather is fine for skating games Why not just do them all A rare chance in the short-living day Before the sunshine ends Untouched snow's marked in their play: Echo the laughter's choir Sevenfold chorus of snowy games Echo over the town The ephemeral song of joy Flying the time so soon Live for a day, go out and play; be a child This one time, before the winter's sun Cold and short in light Ends its path for a night Tired Sun, only hours old Shadows grow in Her trail Leaving the waning light to memory With warm chocolate cups they watch the evening A white winter day's turned dark… Lit the lights for the winter nightfall Gathering of the shimmering sea Town lanterns shine like a star belt: Momentum in calm, with friends }~~~{ Wake The Spring The southern wind whispers in my ears Warming breeze greets me, carrying the season’s end Queen of snow gives away her crown, her veil Gives up her throne for her sister spring… May ice and snow melt It’s time for flowers to bloom May sunrise light new day …Time to end winter gloom Hundred nights and days we’ve watched the world in snow-white veil We have had the winter cover long enough for holidays Hearths have warmed, lanterns have lit throughout the nights of frost and dark Time has come to start the circle once again, Time to wrap up winter… Cleanse the marks of the frost and dark Make way for the life reborn in awakened earth Now surface can breathe, River streams flow free, Water come as rain in warming days Tomorrow’s harvest is planted on ground Make way for harvest Feel the new life in the seeds Wake up the critters underneath Welcome returning friends Hundred nights and days we’ve watched the world in snow-white veil We have had the winter coolness long enough for holidays Hearths have warmed, lanterns have lit throughout the nights of frost and dark Time has come to start the circle once again, Time to wrap up winter… Tend the life reborn and growing after the three months’ rest Take up on tradition’s tasks clad in colors of wrap-up vests After hundred days and longer nights we’ll wake vivid and sing Pick our tunes and sing the morning lied To wake the sleeping spring: Hundred nights and days we’ve watched the world in snow-white veil We have had the winter coolness long enough for holidays On this day we go to work and clear the world buried in frost, Caress the new life arising ‘neath the snow As we wrap up winter.