Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub - St. Lucy - bringing light
into the darkness
(posted by sarahsouthwest)

"St Lucy is especially loved and commemorated in Scandinavia – I guess they really feel the darkness at this time of year, and the need for a little light and celebration.

There’s something very arresting about the image of a young girl crowned in candles making her way through the darkness. It calls to us. It’s a story that we need, and a story that has lived down through the centuries precisely because we need it.

Tonight, I want you to think about the lights we have at this time of year. Candlelight, firelight, but also fairy lights, streetlights – and those massive displays of Christmas lights that people put up in their front gardens. What are we warding off? The darkness, and all the things that dwell in it. I like the idea of Lucy/Lussi as the flip sides of light and darkness. Dark is winning right now, but in a week or two we’ll start to notice a slight lengthening of the days, an easing back into the light."


We need candlelight to blur
the electric shock 
of news each day.

Firelight glows, crackles,
comforts in Winter.

We need more fairy lights
to make us believe there
is still goodness
in the world.

A light cast on sidewalks
by street lamps softly
and safely guide us.

I have seen front lawns
with every blown up
cartoon character
having nothing
to do with Christmas.
Some families like to
display as many lights
as possible, in different 
colors that flash garishly.
A bit of greenery,
some mistletoe,
and small lights,
draw you to the
cozy feel of a
home.  You smile.
We all need more
reasons to smile.

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