Confessional

by Beulah Field — a poem card from Justes Mots

A speaker transforms natural phenomena—dawn, smoke, wind—into sacred rituals and prayer. The poem reimagines personal spiritual practice through natural elements, creating an altar from landscape and sky. It offers solace for those seeking spirituality outside traditional religion or those celebrating nature-based faith.

Red fire of dawn burning in the sky,
Leaping from the purple embers of the night,
A sovereign glory in a sapphire cup,
This is my altar light.

Rising from an early-kindled hearth,
A pungent veil of smoke spirals in the air,
And seems the incense drifting on my heart,…

Themes: love · new-baby · wedding · friendship