May We

May Day
For the dryads and the Soviets
And a Saint Joseph
Day as well

A folkloric opening to spring
In the belief the season
Has
Without much doubt
Arrived

At least in northern land
With
The reverse to the south where we
Are opposite
For not being winter

The May pole
Is a deal

And somehow parades of weapons
Maybe to say
To show
This is that kind of spring for us

Well
Mostly a new month all round
And with associations

And we might not have caught it is
The first
Or think of it another way
To have

Hmm
There also the expression of alarm
Rhyming and quick
To use
And so it’s used

So
We do things with this day
From folklore
And religion
Through to politics
And
A call for help
	That the others might
	Incite

Good
Day
Though there’s context
Past and present
Or maybe good as any other day
In which we live some fullness
For
The living

Though
In case of Jeopardy!
We have a few questions for the columns

And
By the way
Some of us know what
To plant now
By
The day within the season

C L Couch


Photo by Tapio Haaja on Unsplash 
(Finland)