Summer Solstice

Prismatic life forms
Solstice is where
The sun reaches high
In the sky we all share
Resourceful creative
Conceptualisation
Where the wildest of dreams
Form the greatest salvation

Magic is everywhere
Fertile and strong
Illusory concepts
Throw up and belong
Substance and essence
Intensity
Etiolation so sallow
Cadmium orange
Nature’s intensity

I am off to the Rollrights
Two hours away
From my home near the forest
Where fox and deer play
Badgers and squirrels and
Owls hoot and sing
Where the great fly agaric
Positively bring

Their magic persuasion
Stand out they be
A cornelian gem in the darkness
The key
Faeries come hither
And dance in the gleam
Wearing silk alabaster
I have seen in a dream

At the stones where wild moles
Excavate in their way
Drying out earth worms
That become their mainstay
Hazels and Hornbeams
A grove on the hill
Where the rituals of old
Are happening still

The colours are vivid
From the bright Summer light
A spell often cast here
Perhaps a bold sprite
A goblin the nymphs even
Sensationally
With unearthly eyes
That only few see

Magic lore and the craft
Enchantments galore
The kings stone the whispering knights
From before
Chipping norton imposing its shadows below
And the great sky above us
With its cloud cover glow.

Come with me friends
We will motor away
Out Into Oxfordshire
Hamlets that sway
With their beautiful stone
Pictures galore
Sweet scented gardens
And smiles by the score

Come share the journey
The leaf glint away
Passing thatched cottages
And trees that sway
The great Yew so ancient
The bold beech so tall
The willows their sadness
Bowed down for us all

Parked up and walking
To the kings stone away
On a hill we will perch
Feeling the day slip away
A curdle of orange
Of brimstone and blue
Fading fast in a blast
Of a magical hue.