Welcome to Poetry Friday!
Poetry Peeps! Just a reminder: you’re invited to this year’s capstone challenge for the month of December! We’ll be in conversation with the theme of light, hope, and peace. No form requirements, and no length rules – just vibes, and a theme. Are you in? You’ll want to start early this month to craft your poetic creation(s), because we’ll share our offerings on December 26th in a post and/or on social media with the tag #PoetryPals. Light and hope to you! We hope you’ll join us in closing out the year.
If one wants to be technically correct, we’re not quite to Solstice yet, that’s Sunday night, but I saw this Wendell Berry poem and couldn’t resist. I feel like the first line would make a beautiful peace piece of art in its own right, but the poem as a whole is just – mysterious and beautiful, just like a lovely, new moon night feels. Maybe it’s not always Sol Invictus. Maybe sometimes it’s Luna Invicta. Or, Nox Bonum. Maybe goodness and peace in darkness is something we can make work, too.
To Know the Dark
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
-Wendell Berry, from Soul Food – Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds