There Is A Starlight Of The Mind Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

there is a starlight of the mind

that cannot vanish over time

but only intensify beyond all former magnitudes

variegated and refined

of the red and blue the pink and the wine the chartreuse

all strange colours over time made more and more

jewellike and laudable spilling out in little pink sapphire

glints of ice and haloed, snow misted

the Heavens crowning earth refulgent in amber.

Not city lights nor bright polluted sunrise or sunset can dim yet

their fervor in the mind since childhood twinkling

and wrought into a song we sang as if the star could hear us

over Bethlehem: provincial and healing

little as we were and loving everything that shines.

mary angela douglas 26 march 2020