Her Favorite Way To Say Goodbye Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

cherry vanilla should be the day
you are going Home I mean,
home to stay:

sweet cherry vanilla.
and there on the side
a slice of cake, almost bridal

with silver beading
and you'll be reading
all your favorites poems at once

dressed in rose red and
when the light dims
and there's no turning back

or mistaking the signs
you'll be dreaming again of the
Rose, Rose Red

upon the Rood of Time...

mary angela douglas 16 august 2015

Note: of course idea for the poem other than the ice cream and cake is the loveliest of poems in the English language by the Irishman Wiliam Butler Yeats: To The Rose Upon the Rood of Time