“Reflections” by Craig M. Brandt* and “Patterns of Divinity” by Stephen Michael Camp*
Photo Courtesy of Craig Brandt
Craig M. Brandt is a photographer whose theme, “Reflections,” awakens poetry.
Trees tilt, as if invited by the water. A lake, perhaps, softens to a blurry mirror’s lost clarity of memories. Wrist-width limbs lift prows onto a surface silvered in coming dusk. A migration passing through mellowed sunsets approaches grassy islands, traveling past the rim. Gray, pencil-thin trunks support the woods, like posts under a dock, where I walk to the limit and pause; feelings form. Words would diminish.
The lyrics of Stephen Michael Camp invite feeling and thought into the soul’s mystery.
He sang each note as round as a miniature globe and as full as aged wine—messengers of the divine found in the wonderment of vibrations.
Patterns of Divinity
Reflections in the silent waters,
Rainbows after summer storms,
Overtones of angel voices,
Patterns of the Divine form.
We are patterns, patterns of Divinity,
Living out our worldly lives, lost in our mortality.
God sends angels to remind us,
We are patterns of Divinity.
Wonderment in thoughts sublime
Vibrating all around me.
Spectrum voices, chords of color,
God’s love and joy and peace are mine.
We are patterns, patterns of Divinity,
Living out our worldly lives,
Lost in our mortality,
God sends angels to remind us,
We are patterns of Divinity.
Return with me to the heaven,
Jesus promised us within.
There’s a blueprint deep inside us
Waiting for the Master’s hand.
We are patterns, patterns of Divinity,
Living out our worldly lives,
Lost in our mortality,
God sends angels to remind us
We are patterns of Divinity.
My realization is, “The gift of opening our heart and mind to image and word is magnified by our ensuing reflection.”
* Retired naval officer and former Dean of Academic Affairs as well as Deputy Commandant for the Defense Institute of Security Cooperation Studies located at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
* Generous-hearted, loving lyricist and guitarist (1943 – 1996). Lyrics of “Patterns of Divinity” from the author’s collection of Stephen Michael Camp’s writings.