Mary Angela Douglas Poems

such a fun thing to do play board games
when it rains and you've got cabin fever
or home with the measles and feeling better
...

'Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe;
have it done by half past two.'
'At half past two? It can't be done! '
'Then...have it done by half past one, '
...

you would think
an angel with a pink harp
had come out of the woodwork
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we'll wear Tangee lipstick just for fun
dressing in matching shirtwaists
the tiny flowered kind
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why are they troubling the apple trees
with such dark shadows.
and the tree all brimmed with glory
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[for Edward Lear]

the pea green boat is leaking
I said in my prayers
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going to St. Ives
the cherry tree splendid
nursery rhyme land
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[after the fairy tale on The Shirley Temple Storybook Theatre...
'The Land of Green Ginger']

the land where you think you are going
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[goodbye, exceptional artist and poet,
David Bowie]

was anyone else like this? a harlequin
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bears can be that way
when you forget them
they still play
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