What We Do Not See Is Angel Song

Mary Dezember

What We Do Not See Is Angel Song

By Mary Dezember

What we do not see
Are the vibrations fine-tuned
We call
Kindness,
The quick incanting.

If we listen closely
We might say,

This is angel song —

A cryptic spontaneous
Melody
Born in
Hearts beating
And in breath
Of eternal living.

We begin
To interpret this personal
Ethereal gift
While walking the
Arcane Lane

For this is the pulse of
Breath that continues
Beyond the breathing
To a place we think of as

Forever.

These vibrations are the
Generosity
Of a gentle soul —

Selflessness —

What we do see
As a smile
And what we
Experience
As a friend’s gift of time
And creation of space

For us
To sing
So that
We can be

The angels called
Poets.

NOTE: This poem was first read in public by the poem’s author, Mary Dezember, in honor of Billy Brown (b. May 20, 1944) for his 80th birthday, at his birthday celebration on May 18, 2024. To find out more about Billy, see my blog post of May 31, 2022 entitled “Poetry’s Powerful Possibilities” with Billy Brown.

About the Blog Author

Mary Dezember author photo — Author photo by Jason Collin Photography

Mary Dezember, Ph.D., writes stories, poetry, essays, and blog posts as portals to possibilities.

She likes to make life magical, even if that means simply cuddling a cat, donning a tiara, channeling the muse, or reading a good book.

She lives in the Land of Enchantment.

A lover of the beauty and power of language, she states: “We spell words and, arranged well, words can put a spell on us.”

Her novel and her two books of poetry explore the rite of passage to identity, including the hero’s emotional and intellectual quest.

Her novel, Wild Conviction, (Brilliant Moon Press), is a richly historical, coming-of-age, socially conscious, epic adventure with touches of magic and love. It examines the historical basis for contemporary social issues and the rite of passage to identity, including the hero’s emotional and intellectual quest.

Her publications also include several non-fiction essays and articles, fiction, and two books of poetry: Earth-Marked Like You (Sunstone Press) and Still Howling (CreateSpace Independent Publishing), with the title poem being First Place winner of the Best Beat Poem Contest, 2016, sponsored by Beatlick Press.

She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Comparative Arts from Indiana University. Professor Emeritus of English at New Mexico Tech, she is a scholar of the arts, literature, writing and an advocate of creativity.

The image below is her logo—the logo for Mary Dezember and for Dezember LLC. As well, it is the seal of the fictional mystical Sisterhood of Gifts in her novel Wild Conviction.