starting with light
Yesterday I was twice in churches to hear singing...wonderfully healing and energising.
Starting with inspiration from the light of the stained glass reflected on the walls, I drafted this poem. Not all of it works yet - the end is very clunky but I wanted to make a start and get it down. Responses welcome.
Churches and Screens
Lit by the sun, windows leak colour to walls
Glowing with our hope and pain, new candles catch flame from guttering ones
Each one a prayer
Chants in many tongues fill my ears and heart
calming, energising
impelling my breath and voice to join
one with the singers and songs
But lies and Orwell's hate-vents spread like wildfire,
amass like tsunamis, "go viral",
screens powered by dark magic
that tech bros have enthralled us with.
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Oh how magnificent! Light through stained glass always fascinates me - usually the colours cast on the inside of the walls is incidental but I think there are some more modern windows that have been designed in such a way to have colours and patterns that shift and change according to the time of day and light levels of the seasons. Coincidently I took part in a mindful meditation session today that was entitled 'Keep Letting The Light In'. I'm not much of a writer - but your initial ideas here look very promising. I'm curious as to whether the screens are digital (technological) or metaphorical (things in this dark world that block out the light)? And you mention singing...what a wonderfully light bearing art form that can be too! Lots here for you to potentially play with. Do you intend to develop it further?