# Light

Lincoln Cannon’s "Light"—a rainbow-structured iambic pentameter sonnet written during his LDS mission in southern France in 1995.

This is a poem that I wrote while I was serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Southern France around 1995. The poem is a sonnet in iambic pentameter. Each couplet is associated with a color of the rainbow. And there are both obvious and subtle allusions to scripture.

> An apple stains the hands and wine the breath
> betrayed by blood for pottage and a horse.
> “Come home I love you, fire lights the course
> and smoke the trials”: Stumble-blind from death.

[Image: Light]

> A lemon orb abreast familiar earth
> illuminates the flavor of remorse;
> yet verdant hills in peace endow the force
> of life restoring love, endear the dearth.

> Emerging, once immersed in thunder-highs,
> to pure reflection of the heavens and
> be indigoed; the spirit testifies
> that good becomes reality again.
> The summit sets, the stars and moon defies;
> at last remains the light without an end.

Syndicated from [Lincoln Cannon](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/11/light.html).