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Stained Glass Windows Inspire Me

Fiḍál (Grace), 8 Raḥmat (Mercy) 177 B.E. Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Day 30 entry for "The Bard's Hall Contest" .

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for Day 2783: "People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~ Let this quote inspire your blog entry.

This quote explains why stained glass windows inspire me. I've written several short poems about the stained glass windows I've seen in Las Vegas. The following poems were written sometime 149 B.E. (After March 21, 1993 before March 21, 1994) Stained Glass Curtains was inspired by meditating on God's ancient covenant, which each Manifestation renews. On the Day of Resurrection was inspired by walking past a Christian church during the day and seeing the darkness of the stained glass images. The others are descriptions of windows seen from the inside. I visited these Houses of Worship when I was attending Interfaith discussions. I think I may have had longer poem in mind, or intended using them in some other way.

On the Day of Resurrection

By day the dark collage of colored glass
Looks hopeless on a world illuminated by the sun
Those going past see only darkness in the panes
That shown so bright and colorful by night.

Stained Glass Dawn:
A Restaurant Window

Stained glass forest
glows with the morning light.

Brown limbs
with green and yellow leaves
stand out against a sky of red and brown.

Stained Glass Window
In a Latter Day Saint Chapel

Stained glass flower
with twenty yellow leaf-shaped petals:
the bottom of each petal is blue,
there are red buds between each petal,
and the sections of the red-yellow-blue flowers
are separated by black lines.

Stained Glass Window
In a Protestant church

The stained glass cross glows bright in the sunset,
and divides the sunlight into rainbow colors;
the cross' central orb shines yellow and white,
the four arms of colored glass glow yellow, orange, and purple.

Stained Glass Window
In a Jewish Temple

The twenty-seven sections--panes--on each side of the center
form a fan-like half circle;
the center portion, of the window, is wood
and resembles a book;
at the top center of the book two hands hold;
there are symbols--characters--on the book
and at the bottom of the "fan"
are more symbols or letter:
House of prayer,
House of study,
House of assembly,
Eternal light.

Stained Glass Curtains

Stained glass curtains
Separate into granite chambers
The Books of God

Stained glass curtains
Isolate in the own chapels
Faith's Children

Stain glass curtains
Shatter as the echoes of an unseen power
Reverberates through stone corridors

Stained glass curtains
Shatter uniting in a single covenant
The Books of God

Stained Glass Window
In a Catholic Church

The window is round,
with a women wearing a crown,
the women is Mary, the Blessed Mother,
behind and above her from left to right
is Jesus,
the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove,
and God the Father.