they snatched beauty out of the air
and rose above the world despair
their own cinderella lives in tatters
no coach approaching on the jeweled road
I wonder how they dreamed
and made the dream enlarge beyond all
common, miserable matters
until it eclipsed almost completely
the penury they endured,
the utter obscurity
did God in a whispered word sustain them
and walking out of pocket on the avenues
did mysterious flower laden trees
fling down their blossoms continuously before them
that they should be the Kings of spring
so that they knew Someone knew
and told the angels what they were doing
at what cost
and led all the hidden graces
to their decrepit doorways
and made them believe
against the preponderance of evidence
their beleaguered lives accumulated
they were the chosen to endure, to claim even
one lost lovely word or image
true knights forever unheralded, if need be,
in search
of the beautiful, the unmitigated grail.
mary angela douglas 16 february 2018
and rose above the world despair
their own cinderella lives in tatters
no coach approaching on the jeweled road
I wonder how they dreamed
and made the dream enlarge beyond all
common, miserable matters
until it eclipsed almost completely
the penury they endured,
the utter obscurity
did God in a whispered word sustain them
and walking out of pocket on the avenues
did mysterious flower laden trees
fling down their blossoms continuously before them
that they should be the Kings of spring
so that they knew Someone knew
and told the angels what they were doing
at what cost
and led all the hidden graces
to their decrepit doorways
and made them believe
against the preponderance of evidence
their beleaguered lives accumulated
they were the chosen to endure, to claim even
one lost lovely word or image
true knights forever unheralded, if need be,
in search
of the beautiful, the unmitigated grail.
mary angela douglas 16 february 2018
