Monday, July 15, 2019

Sunshine



you bring the sun
through storms & winter
darkness 

steady me
with an anchor of kelp &
kite of starlight

teach me humility 
in sharing your light to
others

blind not my eyes
with rust of world but
with kindness
soft as child's hands



The Sun by Dale Chihuly
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal


Posted for dVerse Poets Pub - Quadrille & 8th Anniversary.  This is a 44 word post with the given word:   sun.   Join us when the pub doors open after our summer break, at 3pm EST.  Thank you!!!!

24 comments:

  1. What a lovely poem, almost like a prayer. I love the picture of the "sun" at the museum is beautiful.

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  2. I love your interpretation of the marvellous piece of artwork in the image, Grace, especially the lines:
    ‘steady me
    with an anchor of kelp &
    kite of starlight’.
    I agree with Toni, it's like a prayer.

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  3. What a beautiful poem Grace. I love 'kite of starlight.'

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  4. This is like a prayer. I like the contrast between the two phrases--the anchor and the kite. Balance.

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  5. I'm wondering who is being addressed. It is like a prayer.

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  6. Chihuly does good work, including inspiring poems like yours. Lovely!

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  7. what a lovely prayer poem - the anchor of kelp is brilliantly conceived

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  8. That last stanza is so lovely that it resonates.

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  9. I like the thought of blinding one's eyes with kindness.

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  10. Well done with the poem form grace. Your poem is a prayer we all need!

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  11. Sure has a plentiful wish feel indeed.

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  12. This is such a genteel supplication, luv it

    Much❤🕊❤love

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  13. Tell me where I can get a kite of starlight? I would love to fly it in the night. Welcome back Grace

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  14. I love the tenderness in this poem. Beautiful!

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  15. I'm repeating everyone else, but this is just lovely, Grace. It made me feel serene just reading it.

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  16. Child Of DreAMS
    Child oF Light
    Sunshine
    Within
    Sun
    Soul
    Heaven
    Apple of my
    EYe Without A Bite..:)

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  17. A beautiful tribute for those who 'bring the sun
    through storms & winter darkness' xxx

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  18. Beautiful. I especially love that last stanza, a perfect prayer.

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  19. a good supplication to remember.
    hope you are well, Grace ~

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