slanting winter light
illumining christmastide
bright long-shadowed joys
light
Wonder, Clear to the Bottom – Sand Ridges and Light Waves – Pere Marquette Beach, MI
“this evening’s light pours” – Spring evening haiku
this evening’s light pours
viscous, strengthening into
summer’s honeyed mead
daylight savings spent – A Haiku on Light in Winter – Autumn Poetry
daylight savings spent
bank winter fires against the
dying of the light
The conceit of this haiku may be too clever by half with its play with the concept of saving and spending light, especially as most of us don’t even have to rely on actual fires to survive in the winter–though only a little ways removed from most of our homes real fires are burning to bring blazing electric lights to them, in the furnace of a coal fired plant or the contained glow of a reactor.
I like the thought of a fire banked throughout the winter, which is fueled and blown to life when needed—which is stoked to extra brightness during the winter festivals, one of which for Christians is all about light of a more brilliant, darkness-penetrating sort.
Something to think about as we string our lights to twinkling against the gloom.
and the darkness has not overcome it – chiaroscuro
Holy Writ
This photo was Art Thievery at its utmost. The lovely leaf sculpture was made by my friend Angela. The sunset illumination is from the same source who illumines souls with the words on the leaves.
about light
if i cannot be a sun
a moon will do
but let it then be one
shot through and through
with glowing