William F Dougherty - Metamorphosis

[Moodpoems: Calendar of Correlatives]

Since happy colors ought to fly,
she chose three bright balloons:
mint and lemon and tulip-red,
her bedpost-stringed festoons.

As happy wings glowed in dreams
the balloons exhaled three ayes:
mint and lemon and tulip red
vaulting butterflies.

William F Dougherty

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