Tag: Light

Contemplation

Spring light for hope

Close up of purple crocuses with bright spring sunlight shining on the flowers

One wishes that with the spring light comes hope – of life, of new starts, of peace. And, perhaps, humbly, one hopes for creation.

Creation is, as Rita Ann Higgins says in Hurting God (Salmon Poetry, 2010), “a combination of the gut, the heart, the mind, the notebook – then the hard work starts.”

Let the combination, and the work start, or rather, make a start within a sliver of light.

Contemplation

Yellow Light

Yellow flowers in sunlight

I don’t think there is anything quite uplifting as sunlight on yellow flowers on a day that is dry and near you are trees on which birds sit, chirping.

Close up of wild primroses with a yellow centre
Contemplation, Writing Life

Between Worlds

We are between worlds: waiting, anticipating, longing. Yet nature awards us with a blue moon – two full moons in the same calendar month.  

“…here I opened wide the door;—
            Darkness there and nothing more.”
from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
 
You can read the complete poem here. 
 
 
Photograph of flowers and candles – by Shauna Gilligan

So, dear friends, stay with your text and let the ideas grow – in light and in the dark. Keep the candles burning, cherish the light around you and hold hope bright.