Through mist and rain I walk the pier
Truly my favourite time of year
Umber sky and umber ocean
All chaotic frenzied motion.
Heaving waves foam and spume
Dance macabre without a tune
Seagulls screech duck and dive
Energised feeling briskly alive.
Turbulent view is painted umber
Seascape beguiles it's full of wonder
This is my time my happy place
Perfect freedom with breathing space.
Writing Challenge -
Unburden a ''U'' Word- Chosen word:Umber
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Constance La France
04/11/2022
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Umber is an interesting pigmentation with many facets not just earth brown.
I, an umber fisherman,
hover
on this bamboo raft
like a dragonfly
over the aegean river.
The gods below
cast reflections
of their salmon sun,
languid
in orchid sky
before indigo palms
and spruce mountains
brocading
a mute kingdom,
onto my blank
porcelain world.
His audience floated while shadowed
in umber darkness of the concert hall
Upon his dusty piano, a spotlight glowed
as his musical notes cascaded in a waterfall
He faltered then stopped near the end
his wispy presence slowly faded away
I've given up the pretense of trying to pretend
I still hear him as he sits near me to play
Sprawl on a strong limb invisible to the sunlight dim
Feasting in the summer‘s greens and sounds of fish swim
Pond hums hymns with those that gaze and linger
Across the pond time swiftly hinders
Umber world gradient chatters while I slumber
Cumber from feeding as I saw lumber
I yawn as the dawn soft air blooms beyond
Musk from the bottom of the mucky pond
Down from my loft with hunger
In the mood for food I wander
4/13/2016
The colour umber.
The umber colour is not any colour but all three at the same time,
and to be any colour like a plain old blue, well be so inclined,
and to tell a colour from another colour you must never be colour blind.
Yes umber is the colour that swirls inside my mind,
so take your colours like green and purple and red and make them another colour; infuse them to be kind
like taking different words and jumbling them up to make a nursery rhyme.
I am the umber colour because I feel it sometimes and you can choose to be any colour you can find.
I believe the most interesting colours are the ones that we synthesize from within our souls which is like a diamond mine.
Our souls changing colour like a blink of an eye and a space in a certain time.
We are the children of star dust and together we can create any colour which is infinite within the miracle that is so so sublime.
What colour describes you at this time.
scumble the number
dates you want to remember
summer in umber
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