FIERCE TYGERS
I lean my ladder on a water coloured sky
And know that William Blake somehow
Is passing by
Still in a visionary stance
Among his angels
His bright glance
Alights on meadows Ive not seen
And charts the river thames for me
The legacy of misery the spent tears gold
Among the ghosts of what had been
And then the breeze lifts unseen as the Holy Ghost is
Jerusalem my heart is free
To seek your visage constantly
And find in Christ the lamb
Fierce tygers.
Though all our battles won’t be one
I praise the Rose that in him bloomed
I praise the shade of the pastoral tune
I praise the angels in the trees
I praise his sorrow I praise his glee
And what the End shall ever be
William Blake with a simple reed
William Blake, in the vanishing point
Of the world still singing.
mary angela douglas 17 april 2024;20 may 2024
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