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May Polemics

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The first day of May

Owned by ancients

And Christians,

Soviets

Now socialists

A day entrenched in green

Because in the north

It certainly must

Be spring

An extra day for Joseph

It was a matter of religion

In repression

But doesn’t the dancing

Go back extra ages

Before the cross supplanted?

Well, in some parts

They all go together,

Which might be something

To think about

Except that mainly folk

Simply have the day

Dance out loud

Or in the mind dance

Reason out

Embrace contraries

All the parts

With each other later

If ever

Happy May Day, folks

Of many kinds

And ages

On the field

All sunlit

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C L Couch

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Photo by Yuliia Tretynychenko on Unsplash

Kyiv, Ukraine

Published 3 hours ago [from 8 a.m. EDT]

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note

William Blake is famously (and reasonably) quoted claiming that “without contraries there is no progression.”  Peter Elbow, a writing and teaching practitioner and theorist, takes Blake’s understanding of contraries in application and in titling his work Embracing Contraries: Explorations in Learning and Teaching.  Both writers and their works tend to resonate with me.

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