Life’s Quiet Brilliance
When thoughts speak
through eyes laughing,
or tears that pool
and catch light
to reflect back to you.
As sure as the Moon
on the tide creates
the rhythm of us,
is Life’s quiet brilliance.
Here
Here I recollect you
in stillness
in a sudden soft breeze
I inhale.
Here
You are the bird
that choreographs the sky
to wires
like a note you pose
underlining bright blue possibilities
you left to shine.
Always here,
I look up to you,
in the arrest of the changing light,
where clouds adjust the space between us.
When it's time to renew
May come at any time
in our human nature.
The prelude ache
before letting go
of fine intents unfulfilled.
In a weary surrender
we are free to become anew-
like the nature of spring
replaces the bareness of winter
with abundant presentation
of bud and bloom.
Waking Nights
Through waking nights
grand images rise
to compose the myriad disparate
as one in warm and muted colors.
They are poems in the in between.
Some disappear too quickly.
Possibly a word may remain
a hint of splendor.
Others are visceral
as the scent of salt air.
Where the Blue Heron takes flight
over the sway and bend
of marsh grass from the breeze.
Or ethereal as abundant wild flowers
through cracks of city sidewalks,
and a puddle's looking glass
reflects opposite outcomes.
Within these fleeting beauties
I commit to cancel the coming day's tasks
to attend to such visitations.
This well-born plan vanishes
when my mind quiets,
lulled into sleep with the morning light.
Bridget Seley Galway is a Somerville artist and poet and an arts editor for Wilderness House Literary Review. Born in Marathon, Florida, she was influenced by the bohemian lifestyle of Key West in the 50s and 60s, and later by New York's Greenwich Village and Massachusetts' Provincetown. After earning a BFA in painting and Art Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst she founded several art initiatives, including the Community Arts Center in Holyoke, MA and Youth Arts Arise in Somerville, MA. She has exhibited work throughout New England and been recognized by publications including, Artist Magazine, Cape Cod Review, Cape Arts Magazine, Emerson's Redivider, and Popt Art Journal. You can view more of her art at her website brieartistality.com.
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