Friday, 21 November 2014

A Book is like an Angel's Breath



A book is like an angel’s breath . . .
   it breathes a wisp of air
      a silent thing, as of life from death
The secret sigh of wings of purest breadth: 
   hidden width in lines of gifted sight;
Wisdom, as the in and out of air:
   breath-filled life, in the heart that joys
      to relinquish what it harbours

In lines of joy, in dreams of angel flight
   the spirit’s sojourn
As a selkie’s lift to tip me ever onwards
Prized open here to take in light
   and on toward new streams thought;
Hope so near in lighted understandings,
   in writing caught in airy comprehending:
As an angel’s breath, inside 
   the hidden inner heaven in me . . .



Poem from a Sequence:
A Rain of Booklight
Part 1  # 22
© Judith Evans Deverell, 2014


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