When Alice met Dorothy

She looks up and there are garnets

embedded in the sky

Ten rubies in her toenails

A purple egret flying by

Her thoughts are all encased

in rainbow bubbles overhead

And there’s a polar bear in jim-jams

Just lying there in bed

      

The swan is all benevolence

Upon its silvery pond

And waves its gilded wings at her

As she makes her way along

the winding path of diamonds

All studded in the ground

And she hears the sound of angels

Singing rock songs all around

There sitting eating guava fruit

A marmoset with topaz eyes

And then a turquoise ibex

alarms her when it flies

Five unicorns come prancing

with pearly glistening horns

A badger’s wearing emeralds

But looking quite forlorn

  

Then a spotted salamander

Blinks an opal lid

and reaches out to shake the hands

Of sequined Sid the squid

A jewel encrusted beehive

drips its golden honey

And Midas-Queen thinks to herself

Ooh, if that were only money!

Then they form a sapphire circle

And do a random, little jig

The clouds have turned to candy floss

And there’s a grunting sugar pig

But no! they’re waving claws and paws

Oink-Oink, tweet-tweet, goodbye

And gone, they all just vanished

In the twinkling of an eye.              

by Meg Marsden ©