Once We Sailed On The Sea Lanes Of Beauty Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

Once we sailed on the sea lanes of beauty
On the moss green waters
In the little swan boats
And lost ourselves in the mirrored kingdoms
Where twins to the clouds were somehow afloat
How often in the intervening time
I have wished those sea lanes mine
Still to wander, far from all rhyme
Seeking the mermaid ladders down and silver edged
To the foam of hidden starlight,
and dreaming the bright pavilions.
mary angela douglas 21 july 2024