Light to my soul, heavenly bliss,
If you forgive me Lord
Loving you naught can be amiss,
For penance I afford.
Death seems ever so near
My soul should be all clear
Take me Lord there's no fear.
Let the bells toll,
Light to my soul.
Quietus
M-orn
A-fter
N-ight
D-enies
Y-our
D-ark
E-vening
T-o
O-bviously
I-llumine
T-he
O-penness
Topic: Birthday of Mandy Detoito (December 15)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust
O-pen
N-atural
A-tmosphere
L-etting
Y-our
N-ew
L-ight
I-llumine
M-orn
Topic: Birthday of Jonalyn O. Lim (December 27)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-ist
I-n
C-hilling
H-aze
A-llows
E-ffulgence
L-etting
E-arly
R-adiant
M-orn
I-llumine
T-he
A-tmosphere
Topic: Birthday of Michael C. Ermita (November 19)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J- uly
U-ses
L-ight
I-n
E-arly
T-wenty-seventh
A-fter
N-ight
D-ark
A-s
M-orn
A-nd
R-adiance
C-learly
I-llumine
A-nother
L-ife
Topic: Birthday of Julie Tanda Marcial (July 27)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust
A-lways
C-herish
K-ind
E-nvironment
L-etting
L-ight
I-llumine
S-hadow
O-f
N-ight
Topic: Poet (Jack Ellison)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Escape with me.
Go forth from all your glorious hold
upon the hollow earth, that churning
vessel filled with pliant clay you seize
to build a higher day, a paragraph
of history your own, an immortality
that someone else may understand.
Your power exists as well
to throw it all away,
to celebrate the light alone
out there beyond penumbra,
waiting for the grinding hours
to have an end.
You need not put your shoulder down,
or prove your worth, for midnight
wears away, the dancers wake;
the sea is crystalline out there
beyond the shore. There is
a bacchanal of joy that waits
for tired sins to dry their tears
of reticence; hope is for creating—
love is for forgetting sometimes.
These are the years for gathering.
Escape with me.
Move down the road a little farther
...where the light is better.
There is healing in the air,
and just a little time to breathe.
The dance begins again,
the unknown set aside awhile.
For us, the sunlight sings.
~
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