<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418468" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Winter Solstice: The Return of the Light and the Redemption of Darkness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Darkness follows light as light the darkness <br>the stunned sun halts mid-dance<br>Shiva Nataraj<br>motionless<br>balancing lightly the luminous and tenebrous <br>exhorting us again to brave the redeeming depth of the shadow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beyond the celebrated land of light <br>that seems so divinely uplifting<br>that dabbles in the windfall waters of virtue<br>and dallies in the Garden of Diversion...<br>we find the locus of the Shadow<br>that disquieting darkness<br>the vision that threatens to char the sockets of the eyes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We know the shadow by our avoidance<br>the nimble step, <br>the sideward glance<br>the drowsy daydream<br>the sidestepped fantasy<br>the impulse denied<br>or not</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We know it by our accidents of speech <br>the slip of the tongue<br>the telltale blush<br>and the complaints of friends </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We know it by our nightly dreams <br>that render such faithful and unswerving service to the shadow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go then<br>taking as your virtue<br>both courage and impeccability<br>swords against fear and pride</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That from which we turn away grows stronger</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joan+Woodbridge">Joan Woodbridge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418468" data-title="Winter Solstice: The Return of the Light and the Redemption of Darkness de Joan Woodbridge" data-description="Darkness follows light as light the darkness the stunned sun halts mid-dance Shiva Nataraj motionless balancing lightly the luminous and tenebrous exhorting us again to brave the redeeming depth of the shadow Beyond the celebrated land of light..."></div> </div> </div>

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