Colours of Life

COLOURS OF LIFE Umber is the colour of the ferny bracken heath Broken fronds dishevelled and unkempt Flaxen is the dry grass laid by wind in tousled sheaf Sanguine, woodland floor with leaves, life spent Thus are the groundlings of this changing land In winter landscape rough and unrefined While trees, sylvan patricians tall now stand Aloof in naked elegance designed Inequity abounds throughout life’s drama That some deplore and protest at this end But would you not accept outcome of karma When each play you’d select what to pretend In form and shade profuse life forms abound And vary without pause throughout the seasons Their changes though predicted yet astound Excite a wonder, give existence reason