Snow Melt and Silence

<p>The seasons shape us and provide an ever changing and yet somehow familiar pattern to our lives. We know that winter will be a time of darkness of candlelight and clinging to the warmth of home. Spring will bring signs of new life and hope a waking after the dormant time of winter. Summer brings warmth a full connection with nature and memories of holidays and stepping out of the pressures of work. Autumn offers us a poignant wistful mood a time of letting go of reflecting and preparing for the dark cold months of winter ahead. The seasons with their feast days and festivals are carried in us like a heartbeat a rhythm that we can if we remain mindful to our surroundings tune into and inhabit.</p><p>These poems written over a twenty year period weren't composed with the seasons in mind and yet somehow they were influenced by the cycles of the year the tone of the season in which they were written. They are seasonal in the sense that they pick up the mood of the season or give a glimpse of nature in the first flush of spring or the leaf fall of autumn.</p>