Walking On The Jewels Of Your Silence Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

Mary Angela Douglas

Mary Angela Douglas

Little Rock, Arkansas United States of America

Walking On The Jewels Of Your Silence



walking on the jewels of your silence
I saw the winter sky come down
enfolding a long-ago radiance.

a child turns the page
and traces the angels.

you scattered amethyst on the snow
turning my pockets overnight
into Christmas or mother-of-pearl.

brightness, you called it:
will it fly away?

once I was living on the fair isle
where I learned to say:
those must be angels coming down
with diamonds in their hands...

there are deeper ripples in the air
where music was before.
my dreams are banked so high
where could I turn to start again
the porcelain beginning of the measure?

the first rung in the sidewalk.

my dreams are banked so high.
my dream is leaving this way

just as the glaze begins to fall apart
on a pale green piano piece
not yet memorized-

mary angela douglas november 28-30 2011

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: Childhood
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Mary Angela Douglas

Mary Angela Douglas

Little Rock, Arkansas United States of America
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