A Belvoir Angel

By a headstone in the churchyard

By Sue Mackrell, 2007

An angel, weighted in stone,

Symbolising sublime weightlessness,

Transcendent ascension of the soul

Inscribed on smoothly undulating slate,

Intricate symmetry of triangular wings,

Sun face, feathered geometric precision,

Insubstantiation substantiated on earth

By a man of Blake's vision,

A country stonemason

Creating a sublime

Vision of heaven.