Poetry: Midnight mass

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by Margaret Mair

Created on: October 01, 2010 Last Updated: October 15, 2010

Darkness folds softly round
Light inside
Where bodies rise
And kneel
And move
Together
In a dance
Of worship.

Music rises
From heart
And lips
Reaching light above
And lighting darkness.

Families meet
Earthly family
And holy family
Sharing space.

Words weave
Stories long told
Of life
And struggle
And hope
And certainty.

And the people go
Comforted
From Midnight Mass.

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Poetry: Midnight mass

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by Eva Perry

All gathered here at the hour

When midnight tolls its bells

For time has come for worship

On this religious fervent night
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by Margaret Mair

Darkness folds softly round
Light inside
Where bodies rise
And kneel
And move
Together
In a dance
Of worship.

Music rises
From
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by Patricia Arnold

My open heart, and open hands.

ascend into the Midnight Mass.

The world outside, is dark and still,

and still
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by Pat Lunsford

A new day dawns as I rouse from my dreams.

Something is amiss or so it seems.

Why has my countenance fallen like this?

Perhaps
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Terra Cotta 1990

Before you left for the Arabian Sea
You gave to me an ivy in a terra cotta pot.

You said you would write

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