Writing The Poem You Long To Be Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

dreaming the poem you want to read

small birds come through the window

with ribbons curled of song, of the glossiest blue

festooning your room and even the closet

is full of stars, star closet God packed it so

to the brim you will never run out of light

nor the singing birds so gladsome in flight

write before Time, before history compiled its

book of radiant sorrows, write for Tomorrow

write toward the transfiguration, Christ illuminating

all the should have not beens

packed into one day where all the angels

just haul them away.

and the trees start blossoming, april whispering

you're all on the sweet Green page again.

mary angela douglas 12 may 2021