{"id":356,"date":"2020-06-20T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T13:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2020-06-20T13:38:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T13:38:34","slug":"the-midnight-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/the-midnight-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midnight Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The summer solstice arrives later this afternoon and with it the season of the midnight sun. \u00a0I wrote this poem for Anne Lindsay&#8217;s recent concert, &#8216;Songs of the Midnight Sun,&#8217; which was webcast from the church last Sunday. \u00a0I was honoured to have my poem read there for the first time.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have put a link to the concert after the poem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Midnight Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the dawn of the Midnight Sun<br \/>\ndeeds of darkness shall come undone<br \/>\nand death at last shall lose its say<br \/>\nas all shall rest in light of day<\/p>\n<p>The stinging tears of grief are gone<br \/>\nfestering fears are silenced in song<br \/>\nnets are filled and the hungry fed<br \/>\neternity rises in the breaking of bread<\/p>\n<p>Streetlights at last shall be no more<br \/>\nAs starlight of heaven opens a door<br \/>\nto a world where all shall live in love<br \/>\nand on earth shall be as heaven above<\/p>\n<p>Come out of the shadows into the light<br \/>\npick up your mat and make things right<br \/>\nliving, forgiving with strength, with soul<br \/>\nkindness and tenderness heartedly whole<\/p>\n<p>May this solstice offer a glimpse to see<br \/>\nEternity always as yet it can be<br \/>\nalive in our hearts from this day forth<br \/>\nreaching east, west, south and north<\/p>\n<p>O Light the darkness could not put out<br \/>\nhelp us to glow when gloamings about.<br \/>\nMay the brightly hours of this midnight sun<br \/>\nlive on in our hearts and make of us one.<\/p>\n<p>JPH 12-06-20<\/p>\n<p>Songs of the Midnight Sun featuring Anne Lindsay:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/gather\/webcast\/index.php?id=697<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer solstice arrives later this afternoon and with it the season of the midnight sun. \u00a0I wrote this poem for Anne Lindsay&#8217;s recent concert, &#8216;Songs of the Midnight Sun,&#8217; which was webcast from the church last Sunday. \u00a0I was honoured to have my poem read there for the first time.\u00a0 I have put a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorkminsterpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}