O Give Me The Sun Bright Words

I will learn the brightest words

the words with the sun in them

the candlelit words from the Lord God

let the night words be banished

let the wolf gold words begone

and the sonar flares.

I will catch the silver breadcrumbs unawares

up early before the birds, before all dawns

and strew the paths with them

and sing sleep my child

awake my child no more

at the lion's door

for the children in flight

missing home

every poem, 

torch bright and inextinguishable..

mary angela douglas ``14 november 2021