Wake up, all old souls
Don’t sleep in obscurity
Order is restored
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haiku: ‘Old Souls’
Tag: Saints
Haiku: ‘Revelation’
Where are all the saints?
Warlocks and witches abound
Secrets revealing
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Samhain/All Saints: The Great Cloud of Witnesses — Sabbats and Sabbaths (Reblog)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us. [Heb 12:1. NRSV] As we approach the celebration of Samhain as well as All Saint’s Day, […]
Samhain/All Saints: The Great Cloud of Witnesses — Sabbats and Sabbaths
*What saint’s day were you born on?
Snatch
A consumed moon’s meagre light;
I pause, mourning this grey life.
Let me look at you —
ear lobes like pearls from tissue,
the emollient pallor of your royal flesh.
My finger probes your lips
as an owl hoots its presence:
I imagine your soul,
the skulls of saints
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Photograph: Church of St. Kyneburga, Castor, Peterborough
copyright Francis Barker 2020
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