"In deepest darkness now is born / From winter's seed the spring to be"
Transcendental Sonnet #1183:
Post Tenebras Lux / a song for the solstice
My love tonight the light returns
Now at the bottom of the year
The sun one moment longer burns
Tomorrow as it lingers here
Night turns to orderly retreat
A day a moment as discreet
Withdrawing with its dignity
Intact and with black velvet grace
On cat's paws it allows the light
Advancing turn to dance tonight
Light steps into ascendency
The blackest morn of Capricorn
In deepest darkness now is born
From winter's seed the spring to be
+Steven Curtis Lance
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Reviewed by Al Swanson (Reader)
Reviewed on December 21, 2004
Hi Steven, I really like the sonnet, its smoothness; the message I found in it myself, was actually profound, pretty much sumed in the last two lines, I felt that blackest night, you seemed to have provided enough so that it ends up staring you right in the face, tya l
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