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17 April 2009

Green / Purple (April Challenge 16)

Prompt: Choose a colour; make it the title of your poem.
(Two for the price of one, today!)


Green

Why did I dislike you
so long?
Was it for being
my mother’s favourite?

She liked the softness
of nature –
grass, leaves –
at once cool and nurturing.

Preferring blues and reds,
above all purple,
yet as I age
I too enter your shelter:

apple green, jade green,
tender green of growing things.
Healing colour, heart colour,
colour of life.


Purple

I didn’t wait to get old
to wear purple.

Always outrageous at heart,
that wasn’t why.

Purple is mystery,
the light just after twilight,

grottoes of amethyst,
a velvet cloak,

Elizabeth Taylor’s
fabled eyes,

the stain
of loganberry juice,

the tips
of some feathers.…

Beauty
is always my reason.


Submitted Nov. 6 2011 for the dVerse 'Play with Color' prompt.
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16 comments:

  1. J Adamthwaite19 April 2009 at 03:04

    Lovely. Especially Purple. Funny how some phrases strike you inexplicably - the tips
    of some feathers.…     for example!

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  2. Rosemary Nissen-Wade19 April 2009 at 06:40

    Hmmm, that was the most immediately present of those images - they were all a bit fantasied, even though I've seen them all, but I was looking at a purple-tipped feather in the moment. I wonder if that came through some way.

    Thanks for commenting!

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  3. Pearl19 April 2009 at 06:52

    like the first but reallly like the 2nd.

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  4. Rosemary Nissen-Wade19 April 2009 at 23:47

    Yes, several others have had that reaction too. Actually I agree. :)

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  5. Brian Miller6 November 2011 at 10:41

    nice...my wifes fav is purple as well. but my eyes are green so hopefully she has grown on it as well...smiles...there is much to like of great, health and life...but purple is so royal...

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  6. Anonymous6 November 2011 at 11:53

    I love purple... I got in trouble for painting a kitchen wall purple...I thought it looked great,it stayed. Great poems!

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  7. Anonymous6 November 2011 at 14:49

    i love purple too. i am attracted to purple.

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  8. Claudia6 November 2011 at 15:16

    to enter the shelter of nature...i love this..so comforting...and purple is a majestic color..

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  9. vivinfrance6 November 2011 at 17:57

    Green is good, but your second poem really resonates with me, especially the last couplet.

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  10. Dave King6 November 2011 at 22:25

    Two compelling poems, of which the first spoke more strongly to me.

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  11. Lisa7 November 2011 at 00:59

    This is very lovely, tales of two colors! I enjoyed it.

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  12. Rosemary Nissen-Wade7 November 2011 at 01:03

    Thank you, people. Actually all colours are good, aren't they? I'm glad you enjoyed these. :)

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  13. Anonymous7 November 2011 at 06:35

    Lovely!!
    "Beauty
    is always my reason." wowwwwwwwww!!!

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  14. Jingle Poetry At Olive Garden8 November 2011 at 00:11

    love the playfulness in this.

    :)

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  15. Victoria8 November 2011 at 15:02

    Whenever someone asks me my favorite color, I can never choose. I just love color. These are replete with what I see as intense colors. All the better.

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  16. Rosemary Nissen-Wade11 November 2011 at 05:31

    Dear insanebloom, Gooseberry Garden and Victoria, I'm so glad that you appreciated those particular aspects!

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