Magdalene with the Smoking Flame
La Madeleine a la flamme filante
Georges de La Tour
Brigid’s Beauty
What
must it have been like for her,
sweet
sixteen, betrothed by her father
to
the King of Ulster?
Wanting
a different life, a rebel,
she
prayed that her beauty
be
taken away.
When
ordained God gave
Brigid
back the eye he had taken
in
her veiling.
Her
path was of milk and flowers
and
the purity of her soul
was a
great gift the Christians said,
but
pagans recognised her witchery,
the
magic of the miracles
and
the splendid power of tales.
Her
light lit the chambers of Tara.
Divinity
was Imbolg, in the belly,
Spring’s
flint, Candlemas,
Lá
Fhéile Muire na gCoinneal,
a
Mary of candles, goddess,
cloaked
keeper of the grail.
Orla
Fay
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