The Poetry of Light and Dark, Saturday, December 6, 2008, 8:00 p.m., Revelations

Please note, this reading will start in the dark with Wendell Berry’s poem “To Know the Darkness” after which the candles will be lit and the lights turned on.  Please come on time and don't miss this!

In the darkest month of the year when we feel the need for warmth and shelter most, on Saturday, December 6, at 8:00 p.m., the Candlelight Reading Series presents a luminous poetry reading: The Poetry of Light and Dark at Revelations, upstairs.

Raven Garland, Patricia Wood, Michael Sternfeld and Freddy Niagara Fonseca have selected poetry from all over the world.  The juxtaposition of light and dark is well represented in many streams of poetry.

We hope the selections will make you feel the glow and unplift associated with the season.  See you a little before 8:00.

PROGRAM

    To Know the Dark

Wendell Berry — To Know the Dark — Raven

Martin Luther King — Quote — Raven

Akhnaten’s Hymn to the Aten — Akhnaten — Raven

Hymn to Darkness — John Norris of Bemerton — Freddy

Heaven — Emily Dickinson — Patricia

The Prophet’s Vision — Rumi — Michael

    Dawn

The Creation — Raven

Doing Donkey Work — Rumi — Michael

Because I Could not Stop for Death — Emily Dickinson — Patricia

On a Sunbeam — Thomas Heyrick — Freddy

The Dark Night of the Soul — St John of the Cross — Raven

Black Hole — Freddy Niagara Fonseca — Freddy

    Into the World of Light

My Soul is a Candle — St John of the Cross — DUET: Raven & Freddy

Love’s Wandering — Rumi — Michael

I Felt a Funeral in My Brain — Emily Dickinson — Patricia

They are all Gone into the World of Light! — Henry Vaughan — Freddy

Who Wants — Sri Chimnoy — Raven

When people see some things as beautiful — Tao Te Ching — Patricia

    Fusion

Dark Pond — Freddy Niagara Fonseca — Freddy

Ravana’s Love / Ram’s Love — from the Ramayana — Michael

In the Flaming Fire — Ancient Persia — Raven

He Fumbles at Your Soul — Emily Dickinson — Patricia

The Soldier — Rupert Brooke — Freddy

The Guest House — Rumi — Michael

    Becoming Whole

Neglecting Meditation and Refusing Kindness — Rumi — Michael

If you want to become whole — Tao Te Ching — Patricia

Wallace Stevens — Domination of Black — Freddy

One Silver Coin a Day for Forty Days — Rumi — Michael

Joy and Woe are Woven Fine — William Blake — DUET: Raven & Freddy

    The Glorious Light

The Love of God — Dante — Freddy

Arrangements to Meet — Rumi — Michael

The Master keeps her mind — Tao Te Ching — Patricia

The Secret Heart — Robert P. Tristram Coffin — Freddy

My Life — Sri Chimnoy — Raven

Light — Rudolf Steiner — Raven

The 2008 Readings

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