Light – Poems From Psalms And Nature

Daily Prompt January 10, 2023

Do you want to live forever?
Daily Prompt

late-day sun
on the gravestones
we shall meet again

My parents had January birthdays, in 1915 and 1917.

new poems
sun on my desk
and chair

I searched in my archives for a few poems about light.

these days
my heart is drawn
to pray more
and contemplate
the Light of the World

John 1: 5a (KJV): And the light shineth in darkness . . .

light shines
through one window
and falls on the wood
frame of another
the light is shared

But as it is written,
eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard,
neither have entered
into the heart of man,

the things which
God hath prepared
for them that love him.

1 Corinthians 2: 9 (KJV)

lighting the
Christmas candle
tiny flame
transforms
the night

Hermitage (2005), The Writers’ Bistro (2007), and Quiet Christmas Poetry

This is the day which the LORD hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118: 24

For thou, O God,
hast heard my vows:

thou hast given me
the heritage

of those that fear thy name.

Psalm 61: 5 (KJV)

light snow
on harvested fields
peace of small roads

But we have this treasure
in earthen vessels,

that the excellency
of the power

may be of God,
and not of us.

2 Corinthians 4: 7 (KJV)

staying with light
I read in different corners
of the house