LUMINA · IBOLYA BERES

LUMINA

a visual journal · Ibolya Beres

The Light Within Us

The Light Within Us

silence opens
a memory about
the future being once color.
petal or purple
light learning to bloom
through the wound of spring.
from the other side of seeing,
the flower gazes into me
the Eye becomes seed.
between roots and sky, one Word
unspoken, unborn — and yet
every living whispers it.
BECOMING
Flowers and Angels

Flowers and Angels

Thoughts become flowers
Snow and heart in clusters
Over which angels are planted in Green
and whisper their white presence.
All of it leans on a stem with thumbs.
Unseen wings carve the Flight
into the four directions of infinity.
They descend inside us
We inhale them higher and higher
Flowers and angels, raw green stem.
In the arms of heaven and light
it is time for you to happen to yourself.
BEAUTY
Unmeasured

Unmeasured

Beneath seconds' ticks
A presence without borders
Refuses all names.
PRESENCE
listen
Love's Hidden Syllables

Love's Hidden Syllables

In love's boundless witnessing
Truth finds space to breathe
No clever answers.
WITNESS
Restless

Restless

I'm restless.
Things are calling me away.
My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

— Anaïs Nin

SOLITUDE
Do Not Rush

Do not rush to stuff all your expectations into it immediately. Do not hurry to fill the space with your desires and demands. Inhale. Honor with humility and trust this new moment that is being offered to you. Receive it as a gift. Open it with joy. With shyness. With tenderness. With wonder. With love.

Let this second melt in your palm like a beautiful and unique snowflake, knowing it will never return. Let the dawn of any new beginning rise. Seize each moment with your heart. Make of each day a pearl. Give it your own meaning, regardless of what you do. Sometimes you must simply let it reveal its own meaning.

And whenever you lose yourself in counting days, return here, to the boundary between one moment and the next. In this silence, which spreads like a red carpet, waiting for the new to step in softly, breath by breath, emotion by emotion, thought by thought, day by day, lifetime by lifetime…

So do not rush. Stay a little longer here, at the boundary of this now. Rejoice in the silence before the new you is born. Right from within you.

Just inspire. Allow yourself to be inspired.

Liminality

Liminality

On the edge of I
Hollow worlds hidden in words
No silence to carve.
THRESHOLD
Akasha

Akasha

In the silent star
Past of an unborn future
Light remembers life.
SILENCE
Essence as Service

Essence as Service

Breathe in food of gods
Within your essence taste it
Breathe out, nourish life.

sacred manna on morning sage leaves

BREATH
listen
Chrysalis

Chrysalis

Drops of pure light
Wings of forgotten dreams
Crystals of memories.
TRANSFORMATION
Hourglass

Hourglass

O, clepsidra mea dintâi
răsturnând ce-o să se-ntâmple
și curgând de jos în sus
lung și greu nisipul suplu
și smulgând dintr-un apus
pururi răsăritul dublu.
Oh, my very first hourglass
overturning what is yet to come
the supple sand flowing upward
long and heavy
and from a single sunset tearing
forever the double sunrise.

— Nichita Stănescu

GOLDEN
I Am

I am the infinite dwelling in vastness and the limits of my own being. I am the circle's perfect roundness and the spiral's divine geometry. I am the primal cry and the lullaby's tender music.

I am the innocence holding all potential disappointments in its palm. I am the purity untouched by time's fingerprints. I am the heart speaking the universal language of all hearts.

I am the dreamer pursuing ideals and the prisoner of every day's rhythm. I am the relentless fight of being alive and the deep surrender into each moment. I am the thunder of awakening within each breath.

I am the gaze of the divine behind all seeing eyes. I am the sun's selfless embrace and the moon's sacred mystery. I am the wisdom in the deep darkness and the bright clarity of the light.

I am the being and the endless becoming. I am the divine essence flowing through all life. I am the Self discovering itself. I am the one, no one and the many. I am the unnamable within my name.

I am that I am, was, and ever shall be. I am nothing but this moment, melting into the infinite source of being.

Kintsugi

Kintsugi

Walls within the mind
Laughter breaks the spell
Love pouring out golden light.
GOLDEN
Time Keeper Light

Time Keeper Light

Golden copper memory lanes
Crystal light sculpts amber veins
Worlds breathing inward.

Time does not merely pass — it creates. With the patience of a master craftsman bent over translucent matter, it carves backbone from radiance, gives Light its skeletal architecture, its framework of permanence within the temporary. Each amber vein a corridor sculpted with infinite precision, each copper pathway a testament to divine patience compressed into one slanted October afternoon.

We wandered through every possibility the way Light itself wanders through those veins — testing each verb as if testing chambers in some vast celestial library. Falls, we whispered, watching illumination descend like rain seeking earth, like angels choosing incarnation. Captured, we considered, feeling the beautiful violence of preservation. Resting, we breathed, sensing sanctuary found. Inhaled, we gasped, as leaf became lung and veins became the breathing apparatus of worlds themselves.

But always, beneath these explorations, the sculptor's hand waited. Sculpts — the word that holds all others within its deliberate architecture.

Time keeps. Light sculpts. Worlds breathe their slow inward breath toward whatever archive gathers the ephemeral and whispers: You were here. You mattered. You are remembered.

Only transformed through the sacred act of being seen.

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