Filigree testament to craftsman skills
These tiny perfect angels,
Suspended on gossamer, begin
To turn careful candle-driven carousel:
Seeming to hover on fine
Heaven- in-a-moon moth wings,
Bearing gifts:
Morality, Humility,
Law and Education.
Spinning points of a
Holy Season Compass
They delicately describe
The circles of life.
One holds out a candle:
Light into the Dark World,
Another a book:
Different enlightenment:
A third, almost-partner,
A tree: beneficent nature
The last … ?
Turning its back to my eyes
I am momentarily unable to see
What it will offer mankind –
… yet I notice on it’s perfect back
Unmistakable reflections
Of jealous Satan’s beckoning flames.
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The photo takes me back – we used to have angel chimes from Sweden (?) I must find out what happened to them! Sue
These are some we bought from The German Christmas market in Birmingham four (was it five?) years ago.
I find them very therapeutic.
Very pretty 🙂
Lovely piece.