Earthly Colors

Terra cotta, craggy rocks Scattered boulders, building blocks In shades of sienna, ochre, buff To form this high and hilly bluff With sunlit ledges thin and wide Place for hyraxes to sun and hide Cerulean, azure, clearest blue The cloudless sky that does imbue Aquamarine lake, with cobalt tints To gently ripple with sparkling hints Of gleaming, flashy, silvery scales With speckled bodies and stripy tails Chartreuse, dappled, shades of green Of forest, jade and so serene Leafy, verdant canopy high With soft and breezy, gently sigh While down below in shades of lime Fragrant flowers so sublime Scented blossoms in fuchsia flush And ripening berries in magenta blush And poppies scarlet, crimson reds Among saffron yellow daisy heads With tangerine buds on sage green stems And luminous violets these little gems While in the distance, misty rose Of lavender mountains in repose Against a background, lilac-puce And threadlike clouds not yet profuse Blending into salmon pink As the sun begins to sink Plain glass inside the window frame Now stained with colors of fiery flame The last rays of sunlight on the glass In incandescent reflecting rays of brass And the ethereal golden radiance of day Passing into evening’s own bouquet