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On a Brighter Note ...

On a Brighter Note … is the home of things, ideas, musings, poems that can light us up. There is nothing that can nourish the soul but light!

On a Brighter Note …

On a Brighter Note … is the home of things, ideas, musings, poems that can light us up. There is nothing that can nourish the soul but light!

Beannacht/Blessing

There is a beauty of poetry that speaks to our souls. I do not feel I possess the ability to express through my words of the beauty I see and feel in life. But as I read or hear other’s, I can feel it deep within.

Beannacht/Blessing

by John O’Donohue

 

On the day when

the weight deadens

on your shoulders

and you stumble,

may the clay dance

to balance you.

And when your eyes

freeze behind

the grey window

and the ghost of loss

gets in to you,

may a flock of colours,

indigo, red, green,

and azure blue

come to awaken in you

a meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays

in the currach of thought

and a stain of ocean

blackens beneath you,

may there come across the waters

a path of yellow moonlight

to bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,

may the clarity of light be yours,

may the fluency of the ocean be yours,

may the protection of the ancestors be yours.

And so may a slow wind

work these words

of love around you,

an invisible cloak

to mind your life.




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