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Passed Over: Tanka
PASSED OVER
Dearest Margaret
Lives in a higher place now
Showers me with light
I am humbled by her gift
And, she says, not before time
Light And Dark: Shadorma
LIGHT AND DARK
In darkness
A light seeks us out
Throws a line
Lest we drown
Whilst most marvellous of all
‘Tis we who threw it
‘Neath Doom’s Trump
‘NEATH DOOM’S TRUMP
Through deepest midnight
Hid light persists in shadow
Embroiders darkness
Encouragement
ENCOURAGEMENT
Veiled by cloud the sun
Still supplies sufficient light
To kindle the search
Resolve
RESOLVE
May we enjoy
And openly share
Shed light
Add warmth
All around, always
While we still may
In The Last Moments Of My Christmas Candle (Republished)
IN THE LAST MOMENTS OF MY CHRISTMAS CANDLE
In the nest of a speckled thrush
Which contained some good ideas
I swear
I swear I saw a lamb
Who are you, heart of the flame
Who stand in grace above a dying light?
Sad endings across the hollow lake
Ducks at evening
A glacier of wax
The glass mountain of Nativity
Urbane as a bustling sufferer
The whole world in a flame
If it grew as a sheet of steel
For the hammer of hard fortune
Embrace
Embrace the light
Do not flee before fears of your own face
Or a tree
Hopelessly strong
Though dressed like an artist
I have nowhere to go
There is no flame
No flower without bud
No budding without death
Ah love, to know is to be true
Unsure as a bursting sunflower
On a slender stalk
Living to find the sun
I fear the sharp eyes of the wind
Child
Of a spring and a summer gone by
All my life in a locket round my neck
Containing a few friends
Many books
Many songs
And myself
In flower
Goddess
I see you pretend to die proudly
Neck as a swan’s
But you will bend your back
Cough like an old man
Spitting in the street his lungs
I am the heart of the flame
The tree
The lord of life
Love is all, love is me
I do not need to tell you
Quite uselessly beautiful
You are the cloudless stars
You are the speckled sky
String Of Lights (30c)
STRING OF LIGHTS
Uniting
Poets illumine
Your dark night
Of the soul
Passing the torch down the years
Lightening the load
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Comradeship
COMRADESHIP
We each swim through time
Spewing words like light and dark
But what do we build?
Illusions and delusions
Glad to have encountered you
Genesis Recalled
GENESIS RECALLED
In the beginning? …….. God
Created the heaven and the earth
And the earth was without form and void
And darkness was upon the face of the deep
And the Spirit of God moved
Upon the face of the waters
And God said, “Let there be light”
And there was light
And God saw the light
…….. That it was good
and God divided the light from the darkness
And God called the light Day
and the darkness he called Night
And the evening and the morning were the first day
