Does Light Grow Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

does light grow, does it have roots

can it become, does it have shoots

is it restless like a stellar tumbleweed

,

does it need more or float like a pond lily



it seems to me

it only Is. beyond all shores known and unknown

a kind of benificence on its own, an attribute of God



that if flows not only to the green tendrils

though we cannot see it do so

sometimes a net caught



on the waters

threaded with gold, light appears to be

the shining of the Sea



which could not shine alone



a blue line in a green wave approaching



I dreamed like Dante

Light was a rose

forever unfolding



scented like stars

or snow.

I dreamed it was healing us so



in our sleep

even through unaccountable weeping



and when,

we arose.



mary angela douglas 25 june 2019