[Stylist] Something for the season

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

See, Barbara, I like the imagery you just wrote here, ha.

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Subject: Re: [Stylist] Something for the season



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
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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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