Interview with the Color Purple

"Tell me, Purple, do you envy your sisters?
Do they envy you in the shy morning mist? "

“Pink-Dawn and Day-Blue, both cheerful and pretty,
paint the wide sky in sunlit visions.

I bruise the clouds and make them weep
with rain - to turn the grasses green.

I envy them not, nor they me.
We each take turns to paint the scene.

And sometimes, at the edge of days, 
see us together: Purple, Pink and Blue and Gray!”
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Date: 9/16/2025 2:01:00 PM
Your poem is imaginative and graceful—Purple speaks with quiet wisdom and poetic pride. The personification is tender and vivid, and the closing image of unity at day’s edge is simply lovely. You’ve given color a voice, and it sings beautifully.
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Jeanette Swan
Date: 9/18/2025 5:27:00 AM
Thanks Danny. Love the big skies. J :)
Date: 9/10/2025 7:16:00 AM
Jeanette, you've touched on my favorite color. Purple hues, (all you Blues, Reds and Yellows), pay your Dues! I'm not talking Smack, when I say, a Lilac Heart Attack, is how I want to Snooze!
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Date: 9/10/2025 7:16:00 AM
Jeanette, you've touched on my favorite color. Purple hues, (all you Blues, Reds and Yellows), pay your Dues! I'm not talking Smack, when I say, a Lilac Heart Attack, is how I want to Snooze!
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Jeanette Swan
Date: 9/10/2025 2:50:00 PM
Thanks Randy:)
Date: 8/22/2025 3:10:00 PM
This is lovely, Jeanette: Dawn and dusk are my favorite times of day for the lovely shades of lavender they bring. So inspiring.
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Jeanette Swan
Date: 8/22/2025 3:39:00 PM
Thank you for your comment. Love big sky colours too. One sky. J :)
Date: 6/26/2025 3:04:00 PM
Love the perspective you have taken in this poem coupled with some great lines.. I bruise the clouds etc, at the edge of days. Makes you stop and take notice which this poem has achieved. Enjoyed... Take care, Paul
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Jeanette Swan
Date: 6/28/2025 3:07:00 AM
Thanks Paul for commenting about what you liked. A bonus of traffic lights this time of year, going home, is sky staring time. J :)
Date: 6/25/2025 12:18:00 PM
i particularly like the third couplet, and purple is a fave colour of mine; interesting concept to interview a colour...thx for your comment on my work :)
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Jeanette Swan
Date: 6/26/2025 5:17:00 AM
It was an interesting prompt in a competition:) Re purple in poems: I have loved a line about clouds letting down their purple hair, and have just given up looking for the Australian poem it came from ( I think it is fairly old, from the 50s?) I thought you would like it, but I can't find it! J :)
Date: 5/8/2025 6:37:00 PM
Comes out so nicely in the last couplet Jeanette. Very pretty penning! :) Gershon
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Jeanette Swan
Date: 5/8/2025 9:10:00 PM
Thanks Gershon :)
Date: 5/8/2025 7:26:00 AM
"...the edge of days" is such a beautiful expression for sunset or sunrise. Both times are equally lovely, as if those colors are painted and blended with the Master's brush.
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Jeanette Swan
Date: 5/8/2025 9:13:00 PM
Like the tassels on a rug. Thanks Lin for reading and commenting :)
Date: 5/8/2025 6:13:00 AM
A lot of emotions this poem..
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Jeanette Swan
Date: 5/8/2025 6:21:00 AM
I have a friend who doesn't like purple because it reminds her of bruises... but colours have many moods. Thanks for commenting. J :)
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