Wednesday, July 17, 2024

THE BEAUTIFUL DETAILS

 

THE BEAUTIFUL DETAILS

What can we say about the beautiful details

Finely worked, or beckoning after long labour;

A single gleam of the sunlight, then is it gone? Like a dream

Fugitive as any have made it out to be before me;

You must be alert my wayward heart to what can suddenly appear

Even after years

You must not miss the instant something buds out of the

Dark of waiting

On the barren tree nor whisper to yourself disconsolately

It isnt for me for then it will fly away, one flicker of tangerine

To someone else’s Garden gloriously

Leaving you bereft of a song

That could have belonged to you only that oh,

Drifted so far perhaps, to find you.

mary angela douglas 16 july 2024;18 july 2024


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