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Tag: light

On Advent – IV: Displaced Darkness?

Last night / We watched the candles / Lighted

choice, darkness, light

Contrasting Companions

dark and light near all along.

coexist, contrast, dark, juxtaposition, light

journée

A day is born

darkness, haiku, Korean, light, see, sijo, sunrise, walk

shadowspeak

let’s listen to our shadow
for it tells us where we’ve been
or where we will be.

dark, future, light, past, shadow

the faerie tale bowl

the bowl remains just as full…

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, bottomless, endless, energy, gold, light

the midnight call

dark hours accuse, misuse, abuse, confuse. The hope of living rises with the sun.

blindness, Catena Rondo, dark, light, sight

the unlit candle

I may have done the gifting wrong

atmosphere, candles, light, mood, unwanted gifts, warmth

on advent – i

we wait and wait…and…

#haiku, advent, darkness, hope, light, waiting

Sonnet XIII – “Alexa, Dim the Lights”

When given option One or Two – try Three.

binary, choices, dark, dim, light, non-binary, options

Sonnet XII – the dying of the light

Perhaps it’s in the dimming gloam we’re best.

bad, complexity, dark, dusk, gloaming, good, light, oversimplified, twilight

Sonnet X – night blindness

The thing most true was never true for me / until one day it dawned and ended night.

darkness, falsehood, light, shadow, tripping, truth

lighthouse

Darkness – Not a thing ~
Merely an absence of light ~
Shine more brightly, friends.

#haikai, #haiku, darkness, light, lighthouse, shine

shine, sun

I need to be where sunlight shines / Its glow transforming – outside, in.

clouds, darkness, lie, light, pure, purifying, shade, shadow, shine, sun, sunlight, sunshine, truth

Et lux

lux perpetua luceat eis

darkness, effort, et lux perpetua, light, lux, Poetry, responsibility, write

by thy help I come

finally bursting forth into light. come, thou fount. refresh.

choirmaster, come thou fount, darkness, light, psalm 23, refresh, river, shepherd, Suzi Mueller, thirst

termites’ demise

if only I could turn
the whole structure
inside
out

darkness, hope, light, Poetry, sunlight, sunshine, termite
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