This Summer Solstice poem is an invitation to get in touch with your own muse, as the sun stands strong and tall in the sky. There are so many ways to celebrate the Solstice, so many gorgeous ritual ideas. We don’t always have time to do all the wonderful things we want to do to welcome a new season.

If all you have is just a few minutes to acknowledge the Solstice, those are valid minutes. Read this poem, and maybe write a few of your own words to describe how you feel as Summer arrives. Go outside and stand in the sun for three minutes and ask the light to enter your body and help you with whatever it is you’re dealing with in your life right now.

Have a meaningful Solstice, beauty!

In The Cave Of Firefly Dreams

The language of fireflies sparkling in the night

The waters that twinkle,

Reflecting light in the eyes of the ocean

Of a lover

Of an old oak in the forest of your life

The soft whisper of trees as breeze rustles in their leaves

Strong you stand 

Light breaks into your hand 

A blast opens your heart

You are art in the making 

A creator 

Yes, the world is breaking 

Yes, this grief is vast and heavy

A cave in you is deeper than you thought

Follow the trail of fireflies into it

Fear will greet grief, and grace will wrap you in the temple of dreams

Where the beams of moon and sun weave and intertwine 

You begin another journey

With a staff made of flower and mud and bark and vine

At the precipice of another wild unfolding 

It wasn’t supposed to be so hard

To shine

You don’t know where the path of shimmering fireflies will take you

Breath of the unknown enters your lungs

This is the day of light and 

You find yourself walking into night

In that cave you didn’t realize was so deep

The fireflies keep you company 

Guiding you in the language of luminosity 

Your curiosity keeps you moving

On this pathless road 

Solstice is when the sun stands still

A moment of magic in the sky

Inside the eye within the cave of visions

See into your solar wisdom

In the center of the sun

Listen for the fluttering wings of the fireflies

Feel the inner kingdom opening its gate for your arrival

You are not late. You are right on time. 

Breathe in the music and the stories of the bard

That you are becoming

You’ve gone far and wide and here you are again

High in the sky of your life the sun stands in her power

Open your mouth and let the flavor of her radiance in

And roar with her in the cave of fireflies dreams.