A Nature's Path: May Day Dance poem

Wednesday 2 May 2018

Photo credit:

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-dilwyn-village-show-herefordshire-uk-girls-maypole-dancing-in-england-36457083.html

May Day Dance

Dance, dance away the morning, dance

to free the dancer within, urging periodically,

for a waltz. Solo.

One, two, one, two, in step, not forward, side

Steps aligned with the Maypole. Announcing

Summer. Morris dancing, Mavis, Boris, Horace, Horatio,

Gather.

Dance until the day draws to a close.

Out dance the dancer whose feet swiftly pass.

White. Drapes of red and blue. Green is in Spring.

Dance. The Green Man appears or not but the

May Queen is here.

Dance then wherever you may perchance

Be in traditional Cromwellian gown. As pure

as the gushing Spring mountain water that holds off

now that April heralds in the garlands of galium odoratum.

Dance to the sounds of swifts quietened by preoccupation.

Brooding. As the Dance continues and Summer unveils.

Photo credit:

www.morrisdancing.org/about-morris-dance/

A Nature's Path