My Little Poems - Ponies with Metal

by Lectuiae

The Equestrian Year Part II

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

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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.

Author's Note:

The two final poems of The Equestrian Year, with Sonata Arctica's Gravenimage and Victoria's Secret.