Eight-line Poems

Kites

Kites

Perhaps all kites should be yellow,
it being such a happy colour,
and happiness being the object
of the young soul holding the string.

And if you’re going to dream,
yellow being opposite to blue,
it seems ideal to take you from
the blues and into the blue.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 04.10.23
Prompt: I Dream of Yellow Kites by Retta Bono.