LILY

Upon Time's measureless expanse,

the Goddess of Love 

laid the triquetra of her dominion,

marrying aeonian

triads of Beauty and Eternity,

bonding Greens and Golds 

of Birth and Hope to Gaea's realm.

Upon Persephone's verdant spreads,

Aphrodite bestowed me, 

lambent chalice of celestial longing 

abrim with divine dreams,

upon this fragrant Temple of Chloris 

where the Horae bless

the Goddess and her fruit.

Fair Iris' jewels meld into purest white

in my soul's palette, 

deepening to gilded alabaster 

beneath Apollo's resplendence,

alchemised into nacred silver stippled

with Asteria's brush by the

pearly glow of Selene's archway.

The Spirit's merging with Elysium's light 

I betoken, journeying forward 

into the Circle, my earthly path aligned 

with its Seasons. 

My flame shall grow into the breadth 

of the distant blue, 

spreading into the horizon, 

where Truth sings of Star and Rill, 

of Lark and Sky,

© 2016 Lily's Verse

Lilium Candidum

Image: THE BLESSED DAMOZEL (edited)

Source: commons.wikimedia.org

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti