Mary Angela Douglas Poems

to my Grandmother

the peacock visions preen: sheer emerald,
turquise, gold paint dribbled dream
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that is the script they hand you
but this is the one you use
please keep in mind
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to Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)

Juan Ramon standing amid blue flowers
did not hear me calling
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for Robin Williams (July 21,1951-August 11,2014)

'send not to know for whom the bell tolls'
-John Donne
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you should have been painted in a lilac mist
looking out to sea yet-
holding the sea within.
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to the very green memory of Edmund Spencer, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.


let Poetry be crowned again with flowers
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to William Blake

I saw you walking
the hills of green,
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just now the bars are coming down again
blue morpheus winds are rising
in my soul extraordinary
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the blue skied books of andrew lang
I longed for as the colour of rain
if rain were the colour of violets.
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if we have written in sand
if we have spoken in snows
if we have died like roses die
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