One from the "back catalogue" today, from 11 November 2005. The title was pinched from a book of essays by Rowan Williams, and I rather liked the paradoxical idea of darkness as a ray, not a ray of light in darkness. It is a conflation of images, all religious rites in some form or another.
A Ray of Darkness
(A Villanelle)
Cast to four corners ever right
Light the candle, make the light
Eat of the bread, partake insight
Encircle all in the mind's sight
Here is the Immanent Delight
A Ray of Darkness
(A Villanelle)
Joy is the dancing in moonlight
Raise the cone, witching time
A ray of darkness is so bright
Cast to four corners ever right
Hand in hand, motion sublime
Joy is the dancing in moonlight
Light the candle, make the light
Voices chant, singing in rhyme
A ray of darkness is so bright
Eat of the bread, partake insight
Sip of wine, taste the sublime
Joy is the dancing in moonlight
Encircle all in the mind's sight
Chant for protection at this time
A ray of darkness is so bright
Here is the Immanent Delight
Ground of being is our prime
Joy is the dancing in moonlight
A ray of darkness is so bright.
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