Cam ceilog – on “the quickening of the year”
Posted: February 5, 2021 Filed under: Photo, Poem | Tags: Candlemas, Carningli Dairy, Imbolc, Milk, NHS, Vaccines 4 CommentsDylan delivers our milk,
Rich, creamy, butter yellow white
Blessed by mountain angels and Swiss cows
Each mouthful, pure delight.
It is 5:15 pm when he pulls into the yard
And Dinas Head still shimmers with duskling light
Dog days of January,
Murky, misty Saturday night.
“It’s as if the year is taking chicken steps” he says
The longer days are creeping into being.
Cam ceilog.
And he drove on
Much more for him to do.
This week gifted us Candlemas,
“Imbolc” as the Celts would have it.
Crocus, snowdrops, wild primrose
All peeping through the coming grass
Finca scrambling the old stone walls
And two daffodils crowning the cairn
On a windswept, frosted Carningli,
Bracken brown dejected.
Meanwhile,
Others also work long days,
On into the darkness
Injecting fresh hope
Raising possibilities of renewal.
Diminishing at least a portion
Of year long
Gloom and fear.
Salutations to our NHS
Raise a glass to
The milk of human kindness
Toast
Cam ceilog
And the quickening of the year.
themarcistagenda 
Another wonderful poem! (Lovely milk too!)
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This one really struck a chord with me, Marc. A timely poem. Wonderful!
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Sums up my favourite time if year and so topical. This year a season full if hope after such a dark winter.
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I, too, revel in ‘the quickening of the year’ – what a wonderful phrase – astonished (even though I know by now) at how quickly into the new year one notices that the evenings fall a little later and a little later. (The mornings seem to take longer to become lighter!) I love your dairy’s winged-bottle logo, too. Thank you for sharing this poem.
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