Let your light so shine, a beacon
for drained and withered, dying souls.
Revive spring to their winter season.
Salve the madness back to reason
Restore jagged fragments into wholes
Let your light so shine, a beacon
Neutralize foul acts of treason
Bright care cauterize weeping holes
Revive spring to their winter season
Scalpel out the darkness’ lesion
Infuse joy to their daily goals
Let your light so shine, a beacon
Stock their bank with warmth’s accretion
Thaw frozen heart’s arrhythmic tolls
Revive spring to their winter season
Lithotripsy stoned concretion
Filter out dust’s blind, choking hold
Let your light so shine, a beacon
Revive spring to their winter season
“Let your light so shine…” is taken from a Bible verse, Matthew 5:16. It was the first thing that popped into my head when I looked at the image. The poem is in villanelle form.
Carrie is today’s host for The Sunday Muse. Just an FYI, I will be on a 99% blogging break for the month of November. See you in December!
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This is great. A very nice poem! ❤
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Thank you, Carol anne 🙂
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A wonderful message and lovely rhyme and form Lisa! Enjoy your break.
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Thank you very much, Carrie 🙂
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I was just listening to his “Morning Has Broken” – what a great arrangement! – Now this to lift my spirits! Beautiful sentiments and poetry, Lisa. Enjoy your blogging break: will miss you!
pax,
dora
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Now I’ve got the Bellamy Brothers stuck in my head!
Cat Stevens said that Longer Boats was about UFOs.
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Now how did that happen, and should I apologize?! As for UFO’s, who’d a-thunk?
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Dora, I think he changed his mind later and said he wasn’t serious, but then you wonder was he being honest the first time or the 2nd time… I thought it was about finally “going home.”
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So did I, and I’m going with that, lol. :>)
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I read that too, Shay.
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Dora, thank you very much ❤
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A lovely vilanelle. Would that such a light would shine!
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Beverly, I think it shines in each of us ❤
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Quite an adroit and sharp villanelle, which I admit is one of my very favorite forms. You use your words fearlessly, but never inappropriately–every simile, metaphor and description is apt. Thank you for introducing me to the concept of lithotripsy–and hopefully I will never know it any more intimitelay than here. A really solid, thoughtful and energetic piece.
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Joy, I’m blushing by your kind words. Thank you very much. I never had lithotripsy and I hope I never do, but one of my blogmates did (Hi Max!) and he told me about it.
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Beautifully done. Enjoy your blogging break!
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Thank you, Sherry 🙂 I hope to.
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Love this Villanelle, Li. May the light shine on!
Enjoy your break and know that you will be missed. ❤️
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Punam, thank you very much for the kind words and appreciate that I will be missed ❤
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Enjoy your break, MsJadeLi, looking forward to reading you again in December!
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Irene thank you very much. Hope to get some house chores done and some artwork done. See you in December ❤
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Beautiful Jade. Relax and enjoy! (K)
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Kerfe, thank you. You may get a postcard sometime in November 🙂
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Great!
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Love this–it feels as if it’s relaxing me as I read it. And a Cat Stevens’ song! Just perfect.
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Thank you very much and happy it had that effect on you 🙂
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I sit here, optimistic and hopeful … the result of reading this fine poem. Enjoy a much deserved break …
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Helen, thank you for the lovely feedback ❤ I will certainly be enjoying my break (especially my wrist and shoulder!)
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Beautiful villanelle Lisa – a poem of optimism and hope. What a wonderful piece to leave us with! Have a lovely break. ❤
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Marion, thank you very much ❤
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Lithotripsy. New word i had to look it up.
Nice poem. No room for shadowdy doubts. Lean to the beacon.
Much💜love
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Gillena, thank you. Indeed!
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I’m gonna light this little light of mine,
Let it shine, let shine. . .
You wrote a nice adult version of this song.
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Jim, thanks. It’s based on the Bible verse, but why not a song also!
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This is so lovely. The message is wonderful and I admire how beautifully you write a villanelle.
Have a nice break.
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Thank you very much, Myrna! (was on blogging break for month of Nov, hence late response!)
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My light is rather dim at the moment. May those with bright light carry it forward. The world needs it.
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Susie, I think our lights shine at varied intensity over time, which is why a community of lights can always keep the darkness away. (was on blogging break for month of Nov, hence late response!)
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Great use of the form and your opening line is the light that draws the reader in.
Salve the madness back to reason – May it be so as everything seems crazy some days.
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Thank you for your kind and thoughtful comment, Truedessa. (was on blogging break for month of Nov, hence late response!)
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Well done, you! I find this form quite difficult, but you’ve done it brilliantly.
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Thank you, Mary! (was on blogging break for month of Nov, hence late response)
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I’m late to the party but needs must say how wonderful this is!
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