{"id":145093013,"date":"2024-05-29T13:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=145093013"},"modified":"2024-05-29T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:40:16","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-the-flow-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=145093013","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: The Flow of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A poem about Brighid during Her own time of war.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6390aeb2-36f2-40e2-ad77-ac488d3b7ea0_5790x3860.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of a piece of metal in a forge. Sparks fly in all directions as the metal is heated.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@greg_rosenke?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Greg Rosenke<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/white-and-red-fireworks-display-during-nighttime-vhD935nRvpo?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Flow of War<\/h3><p>In the flow of war,<\/p><p>how did You work<\/p><p>against its horrors?<\/p><p>Did Your pleas to Ruadan<\/p><p>break like an arrow\u2019s shaft<\/p><p>when he joined his father\u2019s side?<\/p><p>Brighid, did You speak satire<\/p><p>against Your beautiful King,<\/p><p>only for it to fall on heartless ears?<\/p><p>As You healed Your kinsmen,<\/p><p>did You hope against war\u2019s tides<\/p><p>that Ruadan wouldn\u2019t be among the injured?<\/p><p>As You forged weapons,<\/p><p>did You whisper to the molten iron<\/p><p>to not strike Your red-haired boy\u2019s flesh?<\/p><p>With his scarlet meaning,<\/p><p>did You fear Your son\u2019s name<\/p><p>would spill onto the ground?<\/p><p>Brighid, did Your keening<\/p><p>flow into Bres\u2019s ears<\/p><p>at the loss of his son?<\/p><p>How did the torrents of war<\/p><p>course through Your heart,<\/p><p>as it does for so many others?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem about Brighid during Her own time of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145093013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145093013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145093013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145093013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145093013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145093013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145093013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}