THROUGH EVERY GREEN LEAF'S RAPTURE

 

THROUGH EVERY GREEN LEAF’S RAPTURE

Through every green leaf’s rapture

On every April tree

How can it be

You are sending us so intensively

Waves and waves of happiness

O Lord God

Let me not be blind to see

Or deaf to hear

The surging of the flower fed winds

As they gather speed

And feel rise in me

As in girlhood, childhood

The mysterious feeling of the freedom within

We can breathe

And find in every breath your presence

We can dream

And find we are awake

To exorbitant birdsong

To unseen currents of angels

And the massing clouds.

mary angela douglas 30 april 2024