An Abstract In Words

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This a favourite poem as it combines my two hobbies art & poetry

the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation

as

the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical
rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine

unseen

the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,
reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon
the earth green;
bright mosaic gold
mottled the sallow sorrel
virent yellow,oak stained
the pale apricot

while

blood red,reddish russet
dotted the olive lind;
freckled crimson,
a chestnut maroon,
on fuchsias faded apple green
as burnt umber sank deep

into 
its sanguine slumber.

a repost from 6/2007

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