Cradle Candle
The following poem of mine has been selected for an annual anthology called Harmonic Verse, featuring poetry for the holiday season. It’s based on the tradition that my family had of placing in the center of the Advent wreath a white pillar candle to be lit on Christmas Eve.
Advent
Waxen pillars tipped with fire
in a wreath of evergreen;
like the flames, our souls lift higher
with our prayers to God unseen.
At the center, white as bone,
cradle candle wats this night
to embrace God’s love made known:
Christ, The Everlasting Light.
If you would like to order the 2024 edition of Harmonic Verse, published by Local Gems Poetry Press, and read my poem along with many others click HERE.
Another of my poems was selected for Local Gems 2024 anthology Poets of the Promise. If you would like to order this book, please click HERE. See the poem below, which I believe also has a Christmas theme.
Mercy from above
by
Christina Chase
Covered by snow
every dirty ditch and dead grass,
every bare and barren branch;
through the stillness of a winter’s night
came mercy.
Though Earth lost its splendor
in a rage of red orange tears
and sulked beneath the withered decay,
gently, in the dark silence,
forgiveness
smoothed over the rough places,
uniting every tree and trench, twig and tuft
with heavy blessing,
the promise of spring.
May you all have a very merry, blessed Christmas!
© 2024 Christina Chase
Feature Photo by Laura Nyhuis on Unsplash
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Although crippled by disease, I'm fully alive in love. I write about the terrible beauty and sacred wonder of life, while living with physical disability and severe dependency. A revert to the Catholic faith through atheism, I'm not afraid to ask life's big questions. I explore what it means to be fully human through my weekly blog and have written a book: It's Good to Be Here, published by Sophia Institute Press.
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