Thursday, July 10, 2014

Hymn To God By The Dimming Light Of Competition Still, Most Beautiful By Far

still, Most Beautiful, and star by star-

tomorrow they will bar Your sunsets from the competition

having been previously published
oh but not this one I cried the one of magenta fire

and not the ones before, before-

can't they see it's new, the paint's not dry your

 sorrowing angels cry


and mine in the lemon light cast they cast no shadows
in the tender grass and it's where we walked before

all this will pass and the angels and the angels pin blue ribbons

on all You have made 
and those who know You've already won will be gathered where

the beautiful is not weeded out of the garden

they pretend to own
who will not blow Your candles out

because You see in the dark

exactly where we are:
quenchless, Most Beautiful and star by star

mary angela douglas 10 july 2014

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