Lumiere Charity Poetry

Thursday, December 25, 2025

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A BLESSED NEW YEAR TO ALL LUMIERE CHARITY POETRY READERS

Happy Christmas and a Blessed New Year

to all Lumiere Charity Poetry readers.

May blessings be with you and your loved ones

at this time of peace, joy and goodwill.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

AVE MARIA

Freepik

Sweet Virgin Mary, when your word you gave

to be the mother of the Word made flesh

you showed the valour of a spirit brave

trading composure for a tangled mesh

No whimper of regret tarnished the birth

That night in Bethlehem when the angels quired

Calmly you bore and fed the Lord of earth

and heaven. Messiah long desired

Your tender heart was riven by a sword

that Friday when they nailed Him to a cross

Woman of silence, you sustained your Lord,

eyes lifted to His Eyes, no word of loss.

Then did He speak, that suffering Son so mild:

"Behold your son" and I became your child.

Luky Whittle

Image courtesy of Freepik with CN Whittle

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Smoking incense of prayer floats

throughout the medievalprayerroom

of Hildegard's soul as

highbrowed, and passionately mystical,

She views the Trinity with interest

and juggles the gifts they bring

her with ease of vision and

word and writing;

She is skilled in the arts of herbs

and spiritual direction

but most skilled in the

arts and movements

of the soul

Smoke surrounds her inner being

with mystery and fragrance

and understanding and

union and

love.

Catherine Nicolette Whittle

Image 'St Hildegard of Bingen' courtesy of Freepik with CN Whittle

SIUTYHaEV1k

With thanks to Youtube

Friday, April 12, 2024

JULIAN OF NORWICH

Julian of Norwich

A thunderburst of glorious light -

A hazeburst of rainbowhue;

A vision of bloodiedsplendour

and tragicunparalleled grandeur of

Messianicrevealing to a

tiny maid; a plainvisaged

anchoress from Norwich

who lived near the Church;

helped her servant carry wood;

cook; set herbdinners;

clean stoneflags;

who prayed and sewed and cooked and

counselled at an openwindow

and stared - openmouthed - into a blue and white sky

at the visions that surrounded her

and the light that drew her on.

As the grim Stalker pillaged medievalvillages with

death and pits of plaguevictims stared

sightless at the sky

She worked among their souls and angelspirits of light

bringing comfort and love and vision and

salthumour to a world - as always - gone wrong

And she swayed and sang to herself next

to that little open window with shutters,

Free, free as a bird to roam the sky

and pillage for souls, and love and laugh

and rise above anguish and death and

torment and cries and tears

Into a newvisioning of a world

newly born

fresh as an acornleaf

in the innocentwondering Hand

of a Divinitytremulous Creator.

Catherine Nicolette Whittle

QUOTE FROM ST JULIAN OF NORWICH

"And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, 'What may this be?' And it was answered generally thus, 'It is all that is made.' I marvelled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God love it. And so have all things their beginning by the love of God.

In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second that God loves it. And the third that God keeps it."

- Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love