Best Beltane Poems

At the beginning of May, it is a new spring.
It is time to see renewal of everything.
To the native peoples and the diaspora,
flowers and vines reappear in a plethora.
The daytime sun is climbing higher in the sky.
To the restraint of winter cold, we bid goodbye.

Thus,...

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We'll raise the flames of Beltane night,
in song and dance we'll celebrate,
espoused by fires in Pagan rite,
our god and goddess incarnate.

In song and dance we'll celebrate
among the flames of love's desire
our god and goddess incarnate,
my promise made beside the fire.

Among the flames of love's desire
a...

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Hid in the dark pretending to be blind
& you found me with words
Clothed myself in light, thinking you’d search the shadows
But you knew my thought
Took shelter in noise to shut out the silence
& was revealed when no sound would touch me
Embraced the silence & refused...

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As April leaves us like a lamb
May comes dancing in
The sunlight glowing up the sky
And celebrations can begin. 

Come see the daylight as it bursts
Upon the rocky shore
And we can light the Beltane fires 
And winter is no more. 

With oak and ash and willow,
Rowan,...

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Long ago our ancestors, 
waited for the time,
When it was  warm in spring 
To plant the grain, the fruit, the vine, 
The Earth, it is awakening 
Ere winter storm subside. 
Fallow fields are waiting 
for the seedlings to reside.
lighting up the flames now
in the...

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gather wares for market day
and cauldrons of the land
baneful stock for the boiling pot
before the evening’s end

tankards spill and taverns heave
upon these Beltane days
see magic folk and sorcerers
on an otherwise malaise

then pack the carts and disappear
before the robin sees
and woe betide the straddlers
caught there on...

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