Light Leap

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It’s such a sweet deal, this day is.

One hour of darkness sacrificed –

and

offered in return

for such a minor price

is the inaugural hour of daylight savings, brilliantly transported to the slight end of this day,

and it will be true tomorrow’s eve,

and the morrow after that…

Accompanying the vagabond hour

is a peeling of winter layers –

a gleeful shed of wool and fiber

anywhere else

but on me.

Instantly,

there is

time to walk the dog without rushing to beat the darkness,

time to linger longer on the porch with a book, or a cup of something, or a friend,

to putter in the tender twilight garden or

tarry at a picnic table out back amid spent dinner dishes

that held our evening sup among the trees.

An expanse of hours stretching as it does only now,

pulling each day into a heady sunset

that takes it own sweet time, waning slowly.

All told it is a gift of 238 hours, or 14,280 minutes more

topping the evenings

gracing the gloaming

for months to come.

Buoyancy!

Revelry!

Verve!

Spring forward –

Why don’t you?

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15 thoughts on “Light Leap”

  1. You are one of the rare people who can put a poetic twist to the time change. Thank you sharing this perspective. I personally wold prefer stop turning the clocks twice a year.

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    1. Thank you, and I agree! I am happy for the light at night, and would prefer this all year. The post didn’t start out to be a poem, but somehow it ended up as one! Thank you for the compliment and for taking the time …

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  5. This is so beautiful! I love the way you’ve articulated the joy I feel about gaining an extra hour of light at the end of the day. There are so many lines I love in this poem: “One hour of darkness sacrificed –/and/offered in return/for such a minor price…” is one set, and your list of all that you’ll be able to do with the light, and “Buoyancy!/Revelry!/Verve!” Your poem makes me want to dance!

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  6. I love that this became a poem! I was focused this morning on the morning change and had not thought through to the extended evening light until it arrived in your poem. What joy was shared in this extended period of light. It made me realize again that extra time in the evening for outside adventures. Thanks for this push to think about the end of the day delights!

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    1. Thank you! Although it will be dark in the morning for a bit, to me- it’s worth it! Thank you for letting me know that my inadvertent poem brought you a positive spin 🙂

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