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I. Calan Mai
It is summer in thisworld when she is here winter in thisworld without her. In Gwythyr’s arms she is Lady Life: coming to be as the first snowdrop, purple yellow crocuses are her slippers pink red primroses her cloak. Her smile her lips are daffodils’ long trumpets. May flowers weave her grassy hair as she embraces thisworld’s ruler. In dewy glades Creiddylad is May Queen in sacred marriage headdress a veil of hawthorn wedding dress woven from wood anemone she lies with him in bluebell woodlands never more alive amidst the starwort. Hand in hand with his sunshine she walks radiant through buzzing fields with a heliotropic gaze of ox-eye daisies in skirts of meadow crane's bill and poppies, face alive with vibrant butterflies and bees exulting in the dance of pollen's gold-dust until she sees her time in thisworld is over and walks between worlds and lovers. |
II. Calan Gaeaf
It is summer in the otherworld when she is there winter in the otherworld without her. In Gwyn’s arms she is Lady Death: petals fading wilting perishing discoloured returning to the earth with work of insects, seeds descending into soft and loamy soil, sinking down with the work of worms. Into his fateful embrace he takes her down beneath bones of the dead, fallen trunks and golden pollen. In ancientmost forests Creiddylad is Annwn’s Queen in sacred marriage. Their passion in the unseen summer stirs the dreams of sleeping corm, bulb, knotty seed: movement of potential, hidden, dormant until the explosion to life. Each underground power puts out shoot, stem, leaf, reaching upward through snow for another sun. She is their secret growth until the moment of flowering when she sees her time in the otherworld is over and walks between worlds and lovers. |