mulberry
mulberry
how shall you be?
one minute it's
prune
velvety groom
and another
bloom
softly maroon
next: bordeaux red
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mulberry
mulberry
how shall you be?
one minute it's
prune
velvety groom
and another
bloom
softly maroon
next: bordeaux red
That stain, they said,
Looks Bordeaux red.
I claimed it's from her kiss,
But wine stains, too.
I had a few.
Who cares? It's her I miss.
Next: rainbow blue
Rainbow Blue
Of all the
colors of the
rainbow
blue best
guesses
the mood
I'm in
when I'm
longing you
9/10/2013
Next: Ghost-white
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Ghost white, slight, hazy sight
Talks without a sound
Moon light, night, but it's alright
She's fun to have around.
Next: Orange
Orange
We call her Mama Marmalade
From our local "Orange Zest Cafe"
We tip her extra to pay her bail
Every weekend at the Orange County Jail
Too much of her homemade marmalade wine,
Orange vodka, liqueur infused clementines,
Her bourbon marmalade meatballs are rockin'
And what happens next is just shockin'
Mama starts dancing and playing her kazoo
kicking her heels up, Oh! orange stockings too
wagging her ample behind is alarming
Here comes the sheriff, now try to be charming!
Next color is: Lavender Blue
Silly, Silly, Lavender Blue (an homage to "Lavender Blue") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Blue
Silly, silly, lavender blue
who thinks him lord
o'er all the rainbow
Silly, silly lavender blue
declared war on the stars
the sun and moon
Silly, silly lavender blue
what would you do
with all the light gone?
Silly, silly lavender blue
it's light that feeds your
vanity and nourishes the bow
9/11/2013
Next: Seafoam Green
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Seafoam green with fishy eyes
The monster tries his new disguise.
His wicked laugh's enough to scare
Most kids and that's why none are there.
Next: violet
nice piece YesNo quite halloweeny indeed :)
violet
is a beautiful
pilot
to red and green
it coats
then it sheen
and then it let them
have their mean'
synthetic would seem
pointless at the beam.
next: black
Thanks, cacian. I liked the violet-pilot rhyme.
That midnight the full moon was bright.
The forest darkened with delight.
Between fresh thoughts I sensed a black
And heavy club and when that smack
Upon my head left me confused
I floated free, alive, amused.
Where was that emptiness I feared?
Light, soothing light, about me neared.
Next: Pitch black, to continue with black.
pitch black
not matter how
you track
in the darkness of night
you appear to stark bright
at the edges of whites
of moonlight and the stars.
clear is what you veer.
next: mahogany
clumsily tumbling
like tumblers
or something-or-others
the labourers bundling
rafters and awnings
laughing
one another
longing
the buzzing of ochres
and umbers
a jungle of mumblers
the sufferers
of buzz saw lobotomies
are teething no longer
such wealth
and redemption
resurrection through
metamorphosis
assembled and suspending epicentred
in a splendour of slenderly wound timber
I wonder
the spiralling staircase is an extension
of the heavens
signed by someone-or-other
that humble carpenter
anonymous and unfunded they say
and remembered as an angel
undercover
with a hammer of mahogany
Next: Midnight Blue
-seems my find function didn't highlight midnight blue as a duplicate. Alternatively use blood burgundy if desired.
Midnight blue
Coming through
Upon the empty road.
Autumn wind
About me grinned
And freed me from my load.
Midnight blue,
Nothing new
Comes around the bend.
There's no one there.
No need to stare.
We'll make it to the end.
Midnight blue,
I love you, too.
Our home is now in sight.
And safe we'll be
Eternally,
Dancing with delight.
Next: blood burgundy, the previous alternate
marbling and tincture
slates sprain through vermillion
as if fluids to the flume
blood's burgundy meridian
Next: Tangerine
tangerine
a florentine seen
orange to the light
sheens
it appears tan
like a sun high meridian
ran
but under a dim
it appears slim
it almost trims
to become gone
white perpendiculars
its height
ephemere till the day airs
beautiful
it fairs.
caraway
Carried Away
These padded walls of my cell are the colour of caraway
fruits in the cakes I am fed; and as pungent as my poverty
O' for the black seed of home, being the cure for every
ailment 'cept death, to cure my madness and set me free
6/10/2014
Next: Ochre
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ochre
the tangerine
poker
it fades late
under a light
states
but reinforces
weights
under a dim
great
double is to wait
to your every faith.
light pink
A Study in Light Pink / Titania
She floated like a cloud
into the night within an aura
of light pink light;
ushering in an illusion
of innocence and grace -
a playful naiveté
that took one's breath away
Cold and calculating
she whisked! me from the air
hands tightly cupped together
catching yet another firefly
6/21/2014
Next: Old lavender
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Lavender
You have become faded
as Miss Havisham,
a Mariana,
but still there remains
traces of your beauty
in soft subtle tones
which cannot be denied,
it is a remembrance
of lingering aromas,
an exotic taste
upon the tip of the tongue,
yet it whisperers of
melancholy.
Next: Magenta
magenta
the mechanics
of the sun
they shine upon
thee
in and out of
demi
a light a breeze
to be
appears to flee
and you to
seas of colour
you are auror.
beige
Beige is bland,
Works nine to five.
Some wonder how
Beige stays alive.
It just exists
From now to now
Enjoying it
Most anyhow.
Next: light green
light green
is a shade
cream
against
the sun it leans
but against the clouds
it streams
jets of turquoise
it is a dream
such colour is a
scream.
next: ember
A Luminescent Raw Umber Glow
The people, a luminescent raw
umber glow, dance - arms upraised
Outlined in carbon black abstract
they gloat over enemies designated
by red and yellow ochers resembling
hot embers in a crackling fire
A bonfire's blaze adds life and
violence to the flickering tableau
Bison caper gracing another wall
and black-tailed deer evoke the
joy! of the chase; the short-faced
bear and long-toothed cat remind
them all too well of their frailty
6/25/2014
Next: burlywood
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In my childhood
In my mind
I find
My scribbly lines
My rivers and lakes
My pines
My Railway signs
Steam train tracks
And a timeline of things
It seems
I left behind.
Between the tines
I find
Of my enchanted forest browns
Burnt umbers, Burlywoods
A little book of mine
A little mind
A little hand
A little sketch I signed
Reminds...
I was forever drawing
All my spare time
At the kitchen table
The partially open blinds
Reminds me the colours I'd colour between
The lines that I sometimes went over
And how it was fine by everyone but I
Of course it refined
In time
Eventually..
Hah...such a funny mind
And funny line of thinking
In hindsight, I find
I'm pleasantly surprised
Next up: Quicksilver
:)
Sons of Helaman
A cool quicksilver grume
runs through their veins
Bold as brass
all worldliness they disdain
Chiseled sinews
coiled with raging power
The iron rod tempers
their priesthood's might
Go forth, warriors!
forged of truth and light
And honor the teachings
of your mothers
3/5/2015
Next: cerise
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Cherry red
Attraction, taste
And seeds to grow.
They’re likely waste.
It does not matter.
Life will flow.
The cherry’s red
With gifts to go.
Blue
blue bottle fly
blue bottle fly
chillin' on a screen
watches a child in a sailor's cap
scampering quickly by
following on his heels
his dog named spike
wearing a gilded collar
cost half a dollar bill
father is a barkeep
he keeps a good bar
banks half his money
he'll go far
blue bottle fly
catches a scent on the breeze
skunk cabbage and goldenrod
its bee's knees
spike begins to bark
the child has fallen down
wailin' like the dickens
in the afternoon sun
blue bottle fly
buzzes loudly to the throng
like he was a tenor
belting out his song
father comes a runnin'
the barflies help themselves
the child gets cradled tightly
spike then hushes down
blue bottle fly
lits high up in the air
red eyes scoping out the countryside
pheromones signaling kith and kin
3/8/2015 r.3/11/2015
Next: Dust storm ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors:_A–F
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“Dust storm” is a kind of gray.
Some say it might be pink,
But when it’s blowing fast my way
I don’t attempt to blink.
Next: Whatever you think the color of that blue and black or white and gold dress is: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/...s-405695555960
Illusion is a color
By confusion rendered duller
If in or out of fashion
Peel off the dress
I'd be impressed
By skin and eye and passion
Next: Feldgrau
family lore
immaculate starched feldgrau.
polished blackboots.
stark contrast to the distant
theatre behind lines drawn
by men of little sanity.
feuer! an officer barks.
a cannon deafeningly reports.
another.
the dogs of war unleashed.
indiscriminate.
yellow shells reach apogee.
entrenched, cousin 'arry counts
beneath his breath.
mud and comrades' blood stain
his greatcoat. then.
concussion rips off his mask.
a quick gasp of intake.
frantic scrabble. mask!
in a fugue 'arry sees the sherry
coloured gas slowly settle. mask!
'arry somehow survives long enough
to be transported home.
family lore.
the war to end all wars.
thank heavens.
3/9/2015
Next Celadon
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How about: Lilac ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors:_G–M ) or Celadon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors:_A–F )
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A purple fit to shine a queen
Or king in softer light,
To dignify with dreams unseen
As patience hides what’s rough and mean,
To bloom as day grows bright.
Next: Celadon
A Celestial Embodiment 1: A Faith
Lightsome as a sea of celadon
Immutable hearts each paragon
Beings endowed by their Creator
Effulgent countenances greater
Rays celestial embodiment all
United purpose answer the call
Majestic spirits; sweet orison
6/2/2015 r.7/7/2015
Next colour: Candy Apple Red
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Snow White would likely want one, too,
Sweet with red that’s shiny, new.
Next: Android Green http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_green
n92762 ?
Android is green; bilious too
a mobile OS both lean and true
My Kindle (Fire) has a fork -
worthy of Guðmundsdóttir, Björk !
Why n92762 ?
6/9/2015
Next: AliceBlue #F0F8FF
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Icy white with green and blue,
But paler, not as bright a hue
And wonderful like Alice who
Enjoyed it once as we do, too.
Next: Bitter Lemon #CAE00D
Bitter Lemon
Cinquain
goddess
persephone
gathers flowers and fruits
forthwith, summer withers and dies
hades
Next Color: Desert Sand
White with little life and gray,
My intuition’s mocking me
And leading me astray.
A lover lost in play,
My mind leads me away
To anywhere and carelessly.
Next: Amaranth Red
Felled of a faux hue, bled of a ruse
outnumbered welts tell belt's been amused
Supple and soft swells; the welling within
burgundy swirls, striped amaranth skin
Twisting it tightly, watch and you'll learn
glistening brassieres taken to turn
Seas lined in soap suds, scourers awry
pitchforks and bayonets; even supply
Whites framed in pink; scalded and true
new elbow tried against old residue
Wet pants, nicknames, low hourly rates
black on your future; red on your face
Next: Amarillo
creative eyes will rise with it's differences
differences to ingrain
showing light Amarillo
Amarillo as cooperation goes
Self reflect to over collapse
ideas won't give dabs of anything
go through editions if aloud
ingrain going
next: parakeet
The colors of the parakeet
Will vary like a wheel
That spins around through sour, sweet,
Through any way you feel.
Next: Mint