Yin & Yang Poem by Mark Heathcote

Her—emergence a solar fire
Sprang out of the thin airs gyre
Sprang out of wild scented jasmine
A Moon goddess enthroned to a Sun.

Yin - walks both sides, opposite, winter.
Yang - blistering-hot summer
Their kissing courtship moistness was as spring.
Autumn's sap spent drying is not in their power.

Loves bitter rest is as an equinox
Two forces equally, repelled—
Winter's existence is often graven.
Not in Yin & Yang's case. Their love goes unparalleled.


II

Her emergence like a fire
Sprang out of wild jasmine
Out of the thin lifeless-air
On one side fiercest winter walked-
The other blistering hot-summer
Courtship courted as the spring.
Autumn both ours as spent, power
But not a second would I or she rescind.