Friday, 29 March 2024

A Poem a Day (626): The seeker

I just watched a cool film, kinda romantic, set in Ireland, drinking a few glasses of Spanish red wine. Before the film finished, I started thinking about light, and all these different variations of light, and then I opened my laptop and wrote this. It was 12.51 am, which is a bit late to write a poem, but I put on some of my favourite music by one of my favourite bands, My Sleeping Karma, and I felt inspired, and I wrote this, clicked off at 1.02 am and posted it. It is what you make of it. I hope you have a gorgeous Easter. Stay in the light.



The seeker
 
This light,
this clear, white light,
a distillation, recognition.
We look straight through,
reconcile who we are, this happening,
this circle round, this halo, this…
 
It is what we have become,
this fleck of bluest blue,
this hollow tide full-turning wide,
this pure incandescent true.
 
This seeping through
of pure white light.
 
We are this purge,
this left of being,
this turning over of becoming,
inside out to inside in.
 
A light,
an even through,
this being true
when even bereft of light.
 
We are as we seek,
this being as we were meant to be.
 
In this light,
this neverending rhythm,
this truth,
this being,
this art,
this light.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, March 29, 2024


Friday, 8 March 2024

A Poem a Day (625): The room with a view

 
The room with a view
 
The hinges creak open,
a single gust of stalest air,
unencumbered presences.
 
A single candle, unlit,
upturned book, spine rigid,
black pen devoid of ink.
 
Porcelain cup, etched deep,
liquid seeps in a tie-dye ring,
teaspoon perched wounded.
 
The half-drawn curtain sways,
sucked out by the wind,
lace nets blown in rhythm.
 
Upon the bed an open letter,
read once and abandoned.
On the pillow a white, white rose.


Copyright Vickie Johnstone, March 4 (draft 1), March 8 (draft 2) 2024

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