Who Wil Defend The Poetry Of Light Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

who will defend the poetry of Light

in a dark age

in love with dark arts, inconsistencies



come away the starlight sighs

the ivory pages yellowed into dust

you must



into a green shade

resolve dissolve from this stage

that augurs everything everything is lost



she said my ships at sea

the valentines that came to me from a vast God

the old letters fostered in the attics



we will reprieve I said and breathed

in the holy candles of the stars

as once Keats did sailing the meridians of dream



enraptured



or Yeats or Rilke

alone on the battlements facing the disaster

causing bright angels to come.



the sweet Word the forgotten Word,

strummed.



mary angela douglas 3 january 2020