Saturday's Poem

I am in the process of reading the poems of Madeleine L'Engle who just died yesterday. She won the John Newbery Award for the best children's book in 1963, A Wrinkle in Time. I thought it would be appropriate to share a portion of one of her poems today in honor of her.

From St. Luke's Hospital (2)

To my Guardian Angel

Beauty and form's singular absence
Has embarrassed me before the Power
Who made all loveliness. In the hour

When the Fall's result, dark ugliness,
Shakes my body, you, Angel, come,
Solid and familiar as a nanny in the room.

.....

sustained by your stern confidence
In the holiness of all created things
I rest within the comfort of your wings.