'Those who have gathered these four hundred years have watched those same sunbeams waken, glide and fall away.' Photo: David Jackson on Unsplash
A golden light
Poem submitted to Airton Meeting’s ‘Year in poems’ for 2020.
by Anon
26th November 2021
The following was submitted to Airton Meeting’s ‘Year in poems’ for 2020. All Friends, visitors and Malhamdale residents were invited to send original work to be shown on the Meeting website, one per month for the year.
Sometimes a golden light falls
across the door to a place made sacred
by silence.
Stroke by stroke the beams pass over
that room where thought is stilled and then
perturbed,
