The Promise of Winter Solstice

Susan Mayer Brumel

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The Promise of Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice,
                silent birth
Shortest day,
                longest night —
Darkness cast
                upon cold earth
Yields a shining
                newborn light —

Hope,
    Healing,
          Peace,
                 and Mirth…

We pray to see them in our sight

About this poem

Although the Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, the promise of days growing longer and the birth of new life is just a moment away. Wishing you all a very Happy Holiday season however you choose to celebrate.

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Written on December 18, 2023

Submitted by susan.brumel on December 21, 2024

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Scheme	A ABXCXBDC XDXB C
Closest metre	Iambic dimeter
Characters	331
Words	49
Stanzas	4
Stanza Lengths	1, 8, 4, 1

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Susan Mayer Brumel

· 1955 · Newark, New Jersey

A few years ago, I retired from a thirty-five year career in hospice counseling, at which time I began writing poetry. My poems are influenced by my patients’ journeys, the compelling beauty of nature, and the human condition. A lover of all animals and most people, I enjoy spending time in nature, long walks, and reading Pablo Neruda, Blake, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Leonard Cohen, and more. Baudelaire tells us to ‘be drunk’ on something every day; I am drunk on poetry and intend never to be sober! more…

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npirandy
What better things to look forward to than "hope and healing"!
Thanks Susan for such a positive outlook.
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rameshs.88917
Impressive lyric on Winter and I like very much the way your treated the season. My favourite season and I appreciate your literary art that provides wonderful promises of abstract quality of human beings.We should learn many things from the winter season. Congratulations dear poetess for beautiful lyric. more »
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- susan.brumel
  Thsnk you, Ramesh. You are too kind.
  LikeReply56 mins ago

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