#946987 added December 7, 2018 at 12:00am Restrictions: None
colors of love
she asked me:
what is love?
and I paused,
trying to describe
chocolate brown
hugs, and harmonic silvers
singing together,
and dragon green words
flowing together,
and sharing peals
of sunrise gold and pink
laughter--together.
finally, I explained:
when it has just rained
over a desert
and breaking through clouds
comes our sun’s ginger yellow heat,
baking it dry again,
that’s when our world smells
blue like love:
it’s a blue of clear skies.
wedding breakfast blue.
a blue of babies,
freshly bathed and powdered.
line count: 24
hearing silver
feeling/tasting yellow
smelling blue
1. harmonic silvers
2. dragon green
3. sunrise gold and pink
4. ginger yellow
5. wedding breakfast blue
Theme: Colors
Words to use: Minimum of five colors used in new connotations. Use at least one other sense besides sight.
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At least 24 lines, free verse - rather than highlight your colors in green (per usual) list them after your poem.
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