PHIL KIRBY

The Light Of The World

(a ghazal)

Let there be stars, their distant light

shining in the absence of that light.

And let there be a spin, an orbit,

a chance to see the lifting of light,

the bent horizon as it blushes for

recurring dreams, exposed to the light.

Here’s a dream of dark, entangled

ways, of hoping to see the light;

another of the maelstrom-sea , one

beam across raw waves a saving light.

And see the mariner’s burden: how

there seems no way of making light –

or sense – of why, as the world revolves,

each voyage west resolves in half-light.

Phil Kirby’s collections are Watermarks, The Third History and a chapbook, Towards A Theory of Being Human. Work also recently appeared in Sampler Two from Mariscat Press. Poems in Acumen, Poetry Birmingham, Poetry Ireland, Stand, amongst others. Writing as P.K. Kirby, a teen novella, Hidden Depths, is on Kindle.

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