Thank You For Another Day On Earth Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

thank you for another day on Earth
for the clouds massing from up high
for the turning of leaves to gold
for all your alchemies Lord
for breath in the air coming out like clouded mists
for the green and blue ozlike patchwork of summers
leaving slowly
for those things we still manage to hold dear to our hearts
for beauty truth and goodness in Art, in Music, in Poetry
in reading what can be read of wave particles
and the sun through prisms,
in the jubilations of the animals
my heart's deliverance in small things
for the mythical, the mysterious
for the thrice told tales
and then embroidered.
the far away consolations
and those, somehow,
even in devastations
near at hand.
mary angela douglas 20 september 2023