maybe holy angels then inspired us
building up our defenses of beauty
against the cruelties lapping at our door
this was what the grownups called playing.
with all conceivable blocks we built the playhouse
the one we would live in evermore
when the storms came battering
the trick or treat scares,
silos for the candy corn.
Ive thought a lot about it
how the green trees made our grove
long after the leaves, even the trees
were felled.
and how the wishing wells in the picture books
looked so realistic
we believed in so much then.
now I think of little children
little children in school
day by day forced to call it the environment
when for us it was the faery woods.
what is gained I wonder
stripping the branches bare of the gold leaf
the veins of gold, the ramifications
and the ramparts too
of invisible kingdoms.
the jeweled way of measuring the worlds.
mary angela douglas 19 september2018
building up our defenses of beauty
against the cruelties lapping at our door
this was what the grownups called playing.
with all conceivable blocks we built the playhouse
the one we would live in evermore
when the storms came battering
the trick or treat scares,
silos for the candy corn.
Ive thought a lot about it
how the green trees made our grove
long after the leaves, even the trees
were felled.
and how the wishing wells in the picture books
looked so realistic
we believed in so much then.
now I think of little children
little children in school
day by day forced to call it the environment
when for us it was the faery woods.
what is gained I wonder
stripping the branches bare of the gold leaf
the veins of gold, the ramifications
and the ramparts too
of invisible kingdoms.
the jeweled way of measuring the worlds.
mary angela douglas 19 september2018
