Colors



A purple sound comes humming
In a yellow dawn's full bloom.
Red eyes read the rising
Of another marbled moon.
And the jagged, blinding whiteness
That crowned the sightless night
Sleeps above blue heaven
And the rainbow's prism light.
Green life lifts and stretches.
Aqua waves anoint the shore.
Brown bodies kneel and kiss the earth.
Black yields to blue once more.
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Submitted by lindam.30040 on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABACDEFEGHIH
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 354
Words 62
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

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