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classic blue
by Kristina Woodhilli chose classic blue for this eager month of may
a pretty blue, a soft blue, cool spring display
wispy white cat clouds
hissing here
mouse chasing there
hints of girls in swings,
streaming long horsetail hair
i chose classic blue for a lighter, brighter take
in a month with a slingshot view to june's first hot, hot bake
and having chosen carefully the color fit for may
poetic pieces, words and thoughts then took a holiday
the phrase "ruffled tulips" up and hiked out to the pond
where tulip toes were dipping crimson nails and nudging fronds;
completed thoughts like "apricots profusely blooming" stuck,
wedged between
"cute goslings!"
and "soft striped hatchling ducks!"
just a mess of scrambling letters
on the loose
like some spring break
with april in a tizzy after all the plans it laid;
something in the rain that poured, a tipsy champaign potion
up-setting any semblance of recording any notion
may's birch bark is still
a blank white sheet
flip flops are sideways, still
feeling for bare feet
colors are too busy, still
racing with spring rainbows
leaving nouns completely,
adjectivally afloat
it's a mad, glad stream of consciousness
words rushing with the sea
submerged in urges classic blue
and who's to blame, but me
05/29/2009 Author's Note: ;)
Posted on 05/29/2009
Copyright © 2024 Kristina Woodhill
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Kris Mara on 05/29/09 at 05:12 PM AH! Love the playfulness of the words and sounds...as I'm bouncing in my seat reading it! It would take me all day to point out the interesting word combinations and internal/external rhymes coupled with beats...I just love it... |
| Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 05/29/09 at 06:57 PM These are the times of perfect near-summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and I see in those blues no sign at all to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever, ever fade. Beautiful, Kris. Thanks. |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 05/30/09 at 04:25 AM I love your blue
it befits you
and am swooping into your flight-lilting poem-swilking mind-tilting
scrambling letters
on the loose
!!! :) :) :) !!! |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 06/02/09 at 01:05 AM Whimsical and fanciful and very funnerful! |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 06/03/09 at 01:37 AM Wow! My favourite color given new life. Thanks for sharing this spring blossom of a poem Kristina!!! |
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