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Colour of My Heart-2

Colour of my heart


Seeds of animosity   are planted
In virgin soil of the innocent mind
Seedlings should not be taken for granted
inseminating hate's a complex crime

Secrets and cruel intentions of the heart
lay dormant for years, rarely manifest
Conscience and propriety tear apart
uprooted by some calamitous test

Colour adorns beauty and elegance
Awakening an impartial spirit
Whispering words of change to indifference
Hoping hungry, humble hearts hear it

An indigent heart prefers monochrome
'Cause ignorance is all it's ever known!


John Derek Hamilton
November 28,2018

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Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 12/11/2018 1:37:00 PM

Your wonderful example for the contest rings so true with emotions of our nations today. Healing can come through releasing goals of greed and each of us making changes in our own lives. Your poem inspires us to do just that! A fave John! : )

John Hamilton
Date: 12/12/2018 1:15:00 PM

Wow Connie, thank you for your kind visit and encouragement and especially the fave, a nice surprise!

Phillip Garcia

Date: 12/10/2018 7:06:00 PM

It's a shame you can't enter this into your own contest, John, it's really superb. I was writing a sonnet super late the other night (like 4am brain dead late) in which I attempted to use the word "indigent" but instead wasted about 2 hours walking around trying to decide which of its syllables is stressed. I don't know why that word sticks in my crawl so much but I'm saying it out loud again now and feel all the more stupid for it. Thank you for that.

John Hamilton
Date: 12/11/2018 9:18:00 AM

Wow Phillip I'm...pleasantly surprised! I consider you to be one of the best writers on this site, to have you think this is a good sonnet, well...let's just say you made my day! Indigent is a great word, I don't know why I ended up using it, it's not a common use word these days, but you know the muse, strange things happen sometimes!