Seasonal Delights! Poem by Denis Martindale

Seasonal Delights!

Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn...
The years unfolding
And with Christmas to rejoice...

Here's a godly reminder using the Haiku poetry style...
From what I can understand about this ancient concise writing style,
It helps to meditate upon the main theme first.
It's not so much the counting of syllables,
As the purposes for writing something at all.
It helps to include a season as part of the theme,
Or all the seasons, to express the passing of time
And how we invest what we can in our lives
And in the lives of others.

So this writing style's meant to please the genre and its fans,
Yet also to please the poet in the act of creation
And in the expressing of something deep, meaningful and mature.
In essence, serving as the summary of the presently-chosen theme,
The theme the poet thought worthy of sharing...

Seasonal Delights!

Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn...
The years unfolding
And with Christmas to rejoice...

So this explains that God has established the seasons
And with purposes all their own.
We see the hope that Spring bestows as Winter comes to a close,
With Summer as the promise of greater warmth to come.

Then Autumn adds its own seasonal colours
To the trees and to their leaves
And thus it heralds the changing times,
When the distant Sun's further from the planet Earth than before.
The daylight hours shorten with every passing day,
Till the twilight approaches and takes its stronghold,
As well as delaying itself a while at the break of day.

The Autumn begins with the onset of seven months
And their two hundred and twenty-two days,
Days and nights of colder climate change...
And yet most of Mankind endures...
Yes, even these two hundred and twenty-two days...
When Winter approaches, it's then that Man's most tested,
As to the uttermost measure of personal perseverance.

Spring revives the budding flowers and our spirits once again
And especially so for Saint Valentines Day.
So, while sunshine and warmth will brighten each day of the week,
God chooses to provide a variety of seasons,
To mark the passing of the years...

So we might as well have faith and weather the storm
And embrace the bracing wind
And bask in the sunshine while we may,
For who among us knows their final year upon this Earth?
Will I see another Christmas? Will you?
It's why every Christmas stays special,
As with every reason to praise God for what He has done
And all that Christ has done for us, too...

Seasonal Delights!

Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn...
The years unfolding
And with Christmas to rejoice...


Denis Martindale, October 2018.