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lizards?
by Charlie Morgan
starting out i want to say the color: amazon green.
now, some of the background is in place; need more.
the color is all i could carry back from my visit.
it was kept in a cool, dry place: my mind. safe.
and directly in from the exotic Amazon river,
i (drum roll, please) bring you the color green!
viney, plush green slams headlong into my brick wall
and stops. brown brick vs. vibrant greens, bold,
a green twig so far up on the brown wall, a Chameleon,
his color still amazon green, still pulsing veins.
headturning his independent eyes cover me, 5ft. 10in.
he surveys my mini-me as Kai's crooked-finger points.
giants from the sky, we think we must look like to them;
but we don't know the worlds they've seen or been to.
05/24/2008 Posted on 05/24/2008
Copyright © 2026 Charlie Morgan
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 05/24/08 at 09:09 PM Adds new meaning to "Honey, I shrunk the children." Exceptional macro poetic snapshot Chaz. |
| Posted by Alison McKenzie on 05/25/08 at 10:25 AM Your description - vibrant and alive and yet blended miraculously into its environment - I love it!!! |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 05/25/08 at 03:29 PM Isn't nature great with all its variety in colors and the small sense we bring to it only magnifies the variety. Colors spring from a crayon box but never so boldly as nature provides. Nice write! |
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