these transcendent qualities
in late afternoon skies
can cause the heart to break
into song, quietly inordinate sighs;
abet the tear streaked child
in the wilderness of school
in the unruly crowd past noons remembered
as if they were wounds.
there are the colours picked for you
by attending angels or your mother:
the clouds like a code that
only you can read, discover
the sudden breeze
and the lifting of your load
perennially hard to bear;
the deeper green in the greening shade
where you wait for the closing bells oh everywhere
and there the angelic whispers swell
for you for you in a hidden dell
where the violets riot and the wishing wells
beckon you beckon you
to believe
there is a way out within you
and it is glistening.
mary angela douglas 29 april 2017
in late afternoon skies
can cause the heart to break
into song, quietly inordinate sighs;
abet the tear streaked child
in the wilderness of school
in the unruly crowd past noons remembered
as if they were wounds.
there are the colours picked for you
by attending angels or your mother:
the clouds like a code that
only you can read, discover
the sudden breeze
and the lifting of your load
perennially hard to bear;
the deeper green in the greening shade
where you wait for the closing bells oh everywhere
and there the angelic whispers swell
for you for you in a hidden dell
where the violets riot and the wishing wells
beckon you beckon you
to believe
there is a way out within you
and it is glistening.
mary angela douglas 29 april 2017
