Praise Thee, Horai

Initially a prayer or supplication used in formal and religious processions, the litany has been more recently adopted as a poetic form that catalogues a series. This form typically includes repetitious phrases or movements, sometimes mimicking call-and-response. - Poetry Foundation

Praise Thee, Horai

I summon the Drooping, Prairie, and Snow Trillium:

Persephone’s spring thaw beckons me to follow gentle streams to raging flows over lush green river banks and wild grass filled with vibrant blossoms.

I call upon the Bluets, Bloodroot, and Bristly Buttercup:

Aestas’ brightness heals me in summer stillness, unsilenced by natures song, washes over me with the evening serenade composed of chirping crickets, strumming cicada, and verbose bullfrogs. Twilight’s thunderous symphony.

I seek the Shooting Star and the Harbinger:

Karpo’s generous breezes turn to yellow and gold, bringing abundance - soothing my swollen and broken heart. Your bronzed fingers brush across my tear stained gaze - turning my pallid complextion to rubicund.

I dance for the Blue Violets, Phlox, and Virginia Bells:

Morana’s gaze sweeps across blue snow capped mountains as winter’s sleep repairs my wounds to be reborn when spring’s sweet siren song beckons me again to wellsprings of living water.

Notes:

• Persephone is the Queen of the Underworld; Goddess of spring, grain, and nature.
• Aestas is the Roman Goddess of Summer from Roman mythology. Summer Goddes.
• Karpo is the Goddess of the fruits of the earth. She was numbered amongst the Horai (Seasons).
• Morana is an ancient goddess associated with winter's death, rebirth and dreams (Slavic).