[Stylist] Something for the season

[Barbara HAMMEL]

I like it, Shawn. Yeah, I did see a number of mistakes.The line that Bridgit pointed out I assumed was to say tree and halo instead of try and hale. Also i think there is a place where are is used instead of art? I didn't mind the delving into the spiritual. As I read Bridgit's email, the thought that occurred to me was that this poem was like digging into a mine. First you must dig through the light dirt before you get to the harder rock.    Barbara Hammel

> On Dec 18, 2018, at 10:04, Jacobson, Shawn D via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Bridgit
> 
> I changed the line which had some mistakes.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> From: Jacobson, Shawn D
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 10:33 AM
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> Subject: Something for the season
> 
> Below is my attempt at a seasonal poem.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> Angel Light
> by Shawn Jacobson
> 
> In my house today
> surrounded by seasons lights
> I am lifted up.
> 
> The angel on my tree with white halo shines.
> Her blue companion glows bluely from the end-table.
> On my bookcase, an angelic host lend their colors,
> green, cardinal, and gold they shine out strongly.
> With the lesser lights they claim this place
> for color against the leaden season,
> an oasis of multicolored brightness
> on this grinding gray day.
> 
> Once in deep and misty time,
> when history and legend intertwined,
> shepherds saw strange lights in the sky
> a great angelic host, a star brighter than others.
> The choir proclaimed a light beyond nature,
> that would break through the leaden world,
> with color that would be our salvation
> from the grinding grayness of our lives.
> 
> And through the ages color has broken through,
> great hymns and master works of are,
> writers with gifts of wonder and imagination,
> and prophets calling us to change the world,
> so that it would be a citadel of light and beauty
> against the leaden spirits that assail us,
> with the grinding grayness of their beings.
> Against such, we need the salvation of light and life.
> 
> Lights of the season
> are an arrow pointing us
> to a greater light.
> 
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