{"id":455,"date":"2020-07-16T16:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T16:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=455"},"modified":"2020-08-06T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T17:52:13","slug":"thomas-if-you-bring-forth-that-which-is-within-you-that-which-is-within-you-will-save-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/16\/thomas-if-you-bring-forth-that-which-is-within-you-that-which-is-within-you-will-save-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas ~ If you bring forth that which is within you, that which is within you will save you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-15-2020-hand-and-sun.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-15-2020-hand-and-sun.jpg 391w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-15-2020-hand-and-sun-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Thomas%2C%20Dark%20Night.m4a?_t=1596736238\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong><em>Thomas, Dark Night<\/em><\/strong><br><br>Dark night, deep night where indigo abides<br>where ink and pen embroider on a sigh<br>where forlorn planets spin through vast divides<br>where I, small i, hunt syncopated rest<br>among the Souls I\u2019ve Loved and Loved the best.<br>&nbsp;<br>Bright voices hushed ~ bright bones to crucify<br>compose brief poems of blistered cries turned back<br>upon themselves, relinquished thoughts, unheard<br>while stacks and stacks of ashes, now burned black<br>lay spurned and buried ~ withered useless words<br>still curve and bend and arc toward the Light<br>with terrorizing cries: \u201cNow fight, now Fight\u201d.<br>&nbsp;<br>But I, small i, have not compelling words<br>have not enough to recommend my post<br>while hosts of others jostle to be heard<br>where I might find a Trinity, at most.<br>&nbsp;<br>But Trinities can whirl out of control<br>and heavy chains where fabricators judge<br>might well constrain the single from the Whole<br>might well deport the Truth back to the sludge ~<br>convincing us there is no Truth at all<br>convincing us, that we, indeed, are small:<br>we hit the Wall and fall and fall and fall.<br>&nbsp;<br>But, then, we rise. We rise, we rise, we rise.<br>Bright space, where torn and scattered stars exist<br>where racing hearts and Spirits agonize<br>where thoughts fill books and wiser minds persist<br>despite dark nights wove, braced by ragged wind,<br>into the fabric of our conscious mind.<br>&nbsp;<br>The Tribe convenes, decisions recommend<br>the 46 sound pages of our Friend.<br>&nbsp;<br>We crown our hopes and dreams: now, realigned.<br>And Thomas never doubted, never feared.<br>For Thomas was much more than he appeared:<br>a constant flame, unleashed into the night.<br>&nbsp;<br>And there are many, sending us their Light.<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Barbara Helvey Hughes, 2018\/2020<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;If you do not bring forth that which is within you, that which is within you will destroy you.<br \/>\n~ Thomas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}