Random Poems

from  Scatter the Light

Amulet for Troubled Times

Now is the time to believe
in the goodness of things unseen,
in starlight and birdsong
and the dreaming of children,
hope that settles like soft fallen snow.
Believe in the voice of the river,
the call of an owl in moonlight,
sing the canticles of old, have faith
in the ascendancy of light.
Love like a tide that has no turning.

A Prayer for Lucifer
for Ruth Zardo

If light cannot be without
the darkness that defines it,

where in the dark do you look
to find a seed of the light?

Could a shard of hope remain
in a banished brittle soul,

what shaft of mercy might yet
save the Son of the Morning?