Bonnie Beldan-Thomson

Bonnie Beldan-Thomson finds joy when translating beautiful things into words on a page. 

glory

is white,

a piling up and reflection

of all colours

opalescent water and flame,

sparkle of diamonds can scratch glass,

dark sienna of a mountain stream

shifts silver and red of spawning salmon,

strikes black rock, explodes 

into white energy, the kind that made

Isaiah and Handel proclaim

“The glory of the Lord shall be revealed

and all flesh will see it together.”[1]

[1] “And the glory, the glory of the Lord” refers to George Frederick Handel’s musical setting of Isaiah 40:5. It is sung as chorus 4 from scene 1 of Handel’s oratorio, The Messiah. [1]

Read Bonnie’s work and more in Solum Journal Volume II.