Blue Not The Blue Shading Into Lilac Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

blue not the blue shading into lilac

but the blue itself, isolate crystal

I isolate you


clean precipitate

of the dreaming soul

without rejoinders.


see I have built from you

a few lacework kingdoms

from a single strand


one eyelash from the moon.

how out of favor you are

blue not going anywhere at all


they think

I see you on the brink of tears

and glimpse you through dissolving years


ah blue of the world so weary

vanishing beyond clouds

into the Far Sapphire piled up stratospheres


where the winds are found.

sleeping.


mary angela douglas 12 august 2018