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The Wait
Light In The Darkness by Revd. Dawn Savidge. Please credit for use Are we nearly there yet? Childish Child-like humanity longs humanity...
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Dec 6, 20221 min read
The Sign of the Time
Divine Time is not a line, from Earth to Heaven, from Hell to redemption, from here to there. Divine Time is a circle; a spiral of...
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Dec 6, 20211 min read
I AM CHRISTMAS DAY
One small infant poor and frail two thousand years ago could be a million miles away. One rough stable meagre shelter from the night....
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Nov 29, 20211 min read
How the Light Comes
Dark Door Handle By Pexels on Pixabay I cannot tell you how the light comes. What I know is that it is more ancient than imagining. That...
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dawn138
Dec 18, 20201 min read
Silent night?
Silent night? I can’t imagine It was so: Instead The distant murmur from passing crowds; The whisper of Joseph’s anxious reassurance, And...
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Dec 17, 20201 min read
The rain falls like tears
The rain falls Like tears: Sometimes soft but unrelenting, Like the ache of a loss Long ago But never gone: Sometimes harsh and...
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dawn138
Dec 16, 20201 min read
The pain was largely gone
The pain was largely gone: Just a few echoes Like aftershocks From a cataclysm. I held him; Watching each breath; The miniscule rise and...
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dawn138
Dec 15, 20201 min read
I thought I knew pain
I thought I knew pain That night in Bethlehem: Wave upon wave Of unrelenting agony; And the cloaking loneliness As I longed For the women...
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dawn138
Dec 13, 20201 min read
A cold coming we had of it
“A cold coming we had of it”? Well actually The cold was the least of it. The heat was much worse: Cold you can combat, But searing...
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dawn138
Dec 12, 20201 min read
Amid the gathering darkness
Amid the gathering darkness - Deepening steadily As the chill intensifies – The last few rays Battle for supremacy Knowing they must, For...
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dawn138
Dec 12, 20201 min read
I had a choice that day
I had a choice that day: Listening to the empathic wailing Of the women At my husband’s wake, Feeling the deadness In my chest: Too much...
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dawn138
Dec 11, 20201 min read
Icy despair grips the landscape
Icy despair Grips the landscape. The once refreshing White expanses Are now dreary: Endless uniformity, All hint of texture Or colour...
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dawn138
Dec 10, 20201 min read
At first I was amused
At first I was amused. Mystic visitors, I was told, Bringing offerings. At last, I thought, my fame had spread. Amusement though Was...
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dawn138
Dec 9, 20201 min read
I cannot say
I cannot say If it was the leaving Or the arriving Which was more unsettling. Leaving: With all its uncertainty Abandoning the familiar,...
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dawn138
Dec 8, 20201 min read
When the darkness is deepest
When the darkness is deepest Hope will be born When the ending seems endless Hope will be born When the world is despairing Hope will be...
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dawn138
Dec 7, 20201 min read
There is an inevitability about dawn
There is an inevitability about dawn. No matter how dark the night: Disturbed by the seeming reality Of dreams and nightmares Or the...
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dawn138
Dec 6, 20201 min read
They always say the mother-son bond is special
They always say The mother-son bond is special. I don’t know I’ve loved every one of my children Boys and girls It felt no different. But...
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dawn138
Dec 5, 20201 min read
What could express this cold wind of betrayal
What could express This cold wind of betrayal Lacerating my soul As everything in me reels At her words? What could express All my dreams...
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dawn138
Dec 4, 20201 min read
Advent is
Advent Is a time Of stark contrasts. Eager-eyed children (of any age) Await their gifts with fervent expectation: others anticipate...
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