Illumination

©2014 Susan Noyes Anderson

image by my very cute granddaughter, Melina
I love her use of color and texture to bring her vision to light.
She seems to have captured my own vision quite perfectly.

Moths are drawn to light
and so am I,
wings awave against
the darkened sky.
Free to fly yet
bound by naked need,
anchored to a source
I won’t concede.

Moths embrace the light
and so do I,
seeking shining answers
to my Why.

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“Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key…” – George Eastman

Mr. Eastman was speaking of photography with these words, but I believe they apply to all creative endeavors. What draws your interest…your passion? Is it poetry, like mine? Water colors? Stained glass? Sculpture? No act of creation succeeds without the light that surrounds it, and the artist will never surrender his desire for the light that informs his work.

Knowledge requires illumination as well, as anyone who seeks it will attest. Our minds open widest when our spirits are at their brightest.

What is the source that makes you shine? Mine is God, but others give credit elsewhere. Either way, perhaps the most interesting thing of all is this: The light needs the darkness to oppose it. In the absence of darkness, illumination would hold no value…no real meaning. And what that means is well worth considering.

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The Promise Vistas The Lost Ones The Vineyard