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will it taste of raspberry creme,
flow from rose-tinted lips whispering sonnets?
If purple, will it be tart like a Saskatoon berry,
scented like frosted lilac or a wisteria tree in full bloom?
scented like frosted lilac or a wisteria tree in full bloom?
As comfortable as faded blue linen,
blue patchwork quilt, or a distant horizon mid-day?
Cool and refreshing as a coral reef, sweet as peach preserves,
or free and determined as wild salmon?
Smooth as bourbon butterscotch, refined as amber,
exciting as a piece of eight?
Cloaked with comfort like morning fog,
a rich Highland or Somerset grey?
(think Scots or Englishman - I’m all about an accent)
Maybe Celtic and Parisian green (see above)
or calming as meadow sage and wheatgrass?
Perhaps red - hot kisses beneath scarlet maples
or beside gooseberries on a woodland path?
If passion is pink, is it as delicate
as a Victorian rose?
What color will you choose
as you nibble upon your lover's ear?
by Margaret Bednar, July 11, 2019
This is linked with "Imaginary Garden With Real Toads - Bits of Inspiration - You Write the Color"
My goodness!!💖 This poem is a whirlwind of color and passion, Margaret! Especially love; "Perhaps red - hot kisses beneath scarlet maples or beside gooseberries on a woodland path?"😊
ReplyDeleteI love the descriptions. I think I was lost in the amber and bourbon butterscotch. Like getting drunk on colour.
ReplyDeleteThere is so much colour in your poem, Margaret! I love the alliteration in the title, as well as the idea of passion tasting of raspberry crème and purple being tart like a Saskatoon berry (that’s Joni Mitchell country, which makes it even more special for me)! I also like the comfortable faded blue linen and the morning fog, a rich Highland or Somerset grey.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this exploration of color and creative questions.
ReplyDeleteOh, I love this exploration of passion through color. Purple is my favorite color, but on this passion palette I can't choose a favorite color. Excellent! Thank you so much for taking part in the prompt!
ReplyDeleteMy goodness the colors explode in this. I always think of pink as a passionate color so I am glad to read this!
ReplyDeleteI love the way you expressed this image Margaret. Some of the colors you chose were wonderfully exotic. I have a book entitled “The Secret Lives of Color”. It couples fascinating stories with a multitude of colors and hues. Many of the colors covered in that book are most unusual.
ReplyDeleteA beautifully realized colour spectrum of passionate scenes.
ReplyDelete"Smooth as bourbon butterscotch, refined as amber,"
ReplyDeleteLove this line, and the entire poem, Margaret!