Lailat al-Bara'ah begins at sundown (Muslim).  It is a night of prayer for forgiveness, in preparation for Ramadan.  

Sunday after the Assumption of Holy Sophia (Gnostic)

Sunday after the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary (Catholic Christian)

 

Summer

 

firefly light

         the only movement

 

in trees

            dark with summer weighted silence

a lullaby from some bird

           long expanse of grass

where it is not hard to lie

              moon burned with flame

when the sun goes

we smell for the first time in years

quiet clover, lilac trees,

a belief

          in small things aware

of our slight and hesitant moves

          as we turn

the moon is so bright

the light bursts within me.

 

                           - Ramona Wilson  (Colville)

This is the only attribution I had to go with this poem, added to a personal anthology many years ago.