What Colour?

What Colour?

What colour are the oceans?
On warm summer days the oceans are crystalline blue, with bright streaks
Of ivory flouting on the crest of each wave just before it crashes down
Into total oblivion!

And what colour are the mountains that enkindle a dying sun?
The mountains are bright red, like a burning ember in the flame
Of fire off our multimillion mile star, as it slowly dips to rest
Till the morning!

Oh what colour is a new born child?
A child holds the beauty of youth in colours that span the years of its parents 
Age, until the greying colour of passing seasons takes away the child in us all.

And what colour is the moon above us?
In late fall the moon flickers in shades like lucent charcoal as it slowly cools,
Then turns to black!

What colour are our hopes, what colour are our dreams?
Nevermore are our hopes mixed in the colour of our dreams, for in wake our 
Soul equates the mind for a second then is gone.

And what colour stands for the worth of our lives?
The motionless quiet waits silent, bound between colours more radiant then our past
But still more mysterious then our future


                      By M. Norton
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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A   Avatar
October 16, 2010 at 1:54 PM
lovely write, enjoyed this one,..P.D.
Mehta Avatar
October 16, 2010 at 4:57 AM
You have expressed your thoughts on color metaphorically, Mark. enjoyed it
Walsh Avatar
October 16, 2010 at 3:57 AM
A lovely visual piece! Liz
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