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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: 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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