Starlight #haibun #poetry

Starlight sparkles brightest on the darkest of nights

For beauty is in all things, in the most unlikely of places

Within the epicenter of every soul lies an oasis awaiting its bloom

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Quintessence of souls
Life’s scars shroud you in darkness
Shelter or prison

Trauma thickens foliage all round
enclosing the soul in shields of tangle and bramble,
protecting from a relentless past, painful and domineering

And still rays of light make their way through,
like the supple caress of sunlight at the end of a long winter,
Or the gentle ripple through water, delicate and loving
But some wounds run too deep and some scars heal too slow

And yet that soft light still reaches all

The dark light it is called
Its beams lace through obsidian shadows
weaving comfort into that abyss of hopelessness
blooming the forgotten beauty within

gentle stars of night
soft to all, good and bad alike
solace rests within
You seek that which is unsought
loving all, discarding none

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Patience, understanding and belief. May we never turn our backs on those too scarred and wounded to be as stable or balanced as most.

A haibun poem for Colleen’s weekly challenge poet’s choice.