Earth As A Pop Up Children's Picture Book Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

if the earth were a pop up children's picture book

I would imagine rainbows at midnight

abalone ships at sea

no memory of history except

history as imagination

of a sunny kind

green rain in the green trees

and all the cities emerald ones

forever the sunset colours

resembling the sunrise ones

Christmas at home in every zone

the surprise of snow in april for the blossoms

only lightly dusted

cinnamon sugar on the earth loaf where the snow

starts to dissolve

the granting of all generous wishes

and the skies mauve toward evening

the music of the spheres proven

on restored little music boxes

free kaleidoscopes and cheese samples

only happy tears and taffy apples

my life as a rose with endless years

in a garden enclosed.

God having nothing to grieve over

and the same for the rest of us.

and no tests for the schoolchildren.

no making a fuss

only the golden apples rolling down

the only musts are joys

the glass mountains. nothing lost

but only found.

diamonds all over the ground.

the magical all around

mary angela douglas 26 november 2022; 7 february 2023