Monday, August 16, 2021

In The Fair Kingdoms, Fast Asleep

(second poem in the sequence entitled "Children As They Sleep")

is it some mystically bright promontory

you will find forgotten in a modern age

recalled on a green morning so hazy by the lake

you must have dreamed it your covers all askew

while moonlight looked in on you

or you were the pirate of the ship

that sorted all the gold in the sun

or the one who sang Land ho

from your aqua green perch

or would they ever find you again

the way that you were then

so whimsically alert to every ripple in the air

in the fair kingdoms 

making the repairs.

mary angela douglas 17 august 2021

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