Sunflower-song (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, January 8, 2025, afterfeast of Theophany, Synaxis of the Theotokos (old calendar) and feast of the (above) Help in Birth-giving Icon, The Kykkos Icon of the Mother of God, the Blessed Womb Icon of the Mother of God and Saints Julian and Basilissa. Jewish calendar remembers the Septuagint "of the seventy", the Greek translation of the Torah (246 BC). Image from here.)

Sunflower-song

(for those dark-familiar)

To be simple is 

to be like a sunflower…

--Saint Julia Billiart

Moon’s sway, gives way 

I follow Sun 

Sky’s wriggle, soft shake

I follow Sun 

Hope’s stretch, just a little

I follow Sun 

As when world first wakes —

I follow Sun 

*From combined prompts:  Freewrite as inspired by “A Litany for Survival” by Audre Lorde (from Daisy Barrett Nash’s Legacy Lines series, January 8, 2025. (Last stanza inspired by the etymology of “first”, from Lisa Freedman’s BreatheReadWrite, January 7, 2025.)