Tuesday, June 04, 2024

13 GOLDEN DISHES OR ALTERNATE ENDINGS

 

THIRTEEN GOLDEN DISHES OR ALTERNATE ENDINGS

12 golden dishes

12 ruby place settings

13 guests

Such a tempest split the skies

When the 13th fairy arrived

Such a birthday present for the christened princess

How I wanted to go inside

where the fairy tale abides

And rewind the fateful clock

As far back as the dickery dock

Reverse the spell

So that all things shall be well

The wild geese straying off the greening lawns

Where wolves with bonfires in their eyes await

Alternate endings I propose

La vita nuova for each rose

Blighted in winter or summer’s steam

By authors careless with the golden mean

This oh this is what I dreamed

And that behind the optics there

We shall like vintage clouds repair

The damage that the skies retained

When all the stories rained their rains

And with practice in the fictive realm

With time we shall on earth decline

The tragedies that us enfold

And turn real realms of mire to gold.

May it please the Father.

mary angela douglas 4 june 2024


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