MsMerlina's Blog

Equinox and Easter

I love Easter – very good memories and pleasant times for a Spring holiday when all the Earth is renewing. Poetry is one of my passions because words are icons,

symbols and when put together in the right way, they are incantations. I think poems are like a dance of nature. Here’s Chaucer talking about pilgrams journeying in Spring to Canterbury when he wrote this back in 1386 -

Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne (when Aries the Ram has run half a course in the sky) And smale fowles maken melodye (birds singing) That sleepen al the night with open ye (sleeping with eyes open) So priketh hem Nature in hir corages (because Nature has wakened their hearts) Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages (then people want to go on pilgramages – journeys) And palmeres for to seeken straunge strondes To ferne halwes couthe in sondry londes (wide ranging pilgrams seeking foreign shores, far off shrines)

Here’s part of a poem from one of my favourite poets – Percy Bysshe Shelley, who drowned when he was about 28 I think, back in 1822. This is about a skylark -

We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is frought; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought

By the way, Shelley’s wife Mary wrote the original ‘Frankenstein’.

Although loved ones may have passed on, I will think back of the good times this Easter. I hope you do, too!

xoxo Criss, my inspiration

Love, Lou