Brand New Day Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

such a charmed life was shining
with cherries on top and malted
malt shoppe double malted

salted caramel wafted
through the cinemas of the Saturday children
no more wildnerness

was chanted and we said goodbye
at the Easter stations plied with
lilies kaleidosocpe turning

paperback yearning at
the school book fairs
and madrigaled near the holly everywhere

the rose cheeked frost engaging
dream of the bride doll's satin
redeeming down the aisles

of our play
I have seen the lustre
of the diffident moon through clouds
and cried for the crayon of the

rose rose red
and said is it Christmas Eve
to the now long dead

saying please in the cherry strewn Spring
let them Return
the ones the one and all

who loved me when I was small
with cherries on top
in the gleaming of

a Brand New Day...

mary angela douglas 5 septemver 2017