The Friday Poem
Winter Lights Within
You say:
It’s so dark and dreich here
So far north
So far away
I say: but let me show you
The soft gentle darkness
Of my street in mid-winter.
We can walk past tea-time scenes
Behind a shifting tracery of branches.
There’s my neighbour waving to us
From her golden doorway
A moment’s greeting
Before the clicking lock
Returns her to the warmth of the fire.
Here are roses blooming
In the stained-glass windows:
Curving leaves that twine and glow
Within frames of curving granite.
And can you see, along the terrace,
The delicate chain of lamplight?
Its pattern, pinned to earth,
Is echoed by the stars.
Where I lived before this
It’s true that dusk came later
But for all the winter daylight
There was darkness in my heart.
~Christine Laennec~
(Published in Pushing Out the Boat, issue 9, 2010, p. 41.)
Read more of Christine’s writing at http://christinelaennec.co.uk/
Beautiful – I love this, thanks for sharing and I look forward to reading more of Christine’s work.
Thanks, Philippa x
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Thank you Philippa
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Talks about the dreich outside and the anguish in our hearts!!! The narrative feels almost like a conversation, and makes the poem all the more intimate and personal.
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Thank you Somnath for taking the time to share your comment.
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