Blue Drift of Sea and Sky
Robin’s egg bides its time, dreaming of sky
The lapis lazuli of a clear, unbroken sky
Turquoise, bringing life into the air
with a song of a nightingale
Cerulean sky, water washed, perfect
backdrop for tonight’s sunset glow
Turquoise waters trickle down
the mountain pass, a breath of fresh air
The cerulean sky deeply melancholic yet
hopefully rhapsodic therein sings with cyan highlights
Sapphire sprays ocean-scented playfully massage
my weary toes with their briny, frothy goodness
The azure sky tasted like whipped berries
on a fluffy silent vanilla scented cloud
My greenish opal eyes blend together
with the sea and the sky
Sapphire sparkles scattered amongst the waves
Cobalt popsicles paint my lips and tongue with yum
Glacial water that’s the color of the sky,
I long for your quenching effects from my empty canteen
When it was full, this bottle was melancholy
Now it’s just heavy with what I don’t remember
Midnight! Cobalt! Indigo! Mediterranean! Teal! Turquoise!
Oh you all make me blue blue blue with desire!
Midnight in Paris perfume from Kress
ooh la la now I long to caress
Joni Mitchell’s color and like my mood,
a dark indigo smudge on the horizon
I am tainted as the cavernous
veins of Roquefort
A minor third, a diminished fifth
weeping with vibrato, sliding up home
Wisteria dissolves, softly humming on my fingers
Twinkle, twinkle periwinkle, cool night, stars up high
I was the only one tall enough
to look into the bassinet
the baby boy
a bundle of joy
had eyes the color of the sky!
Original prompt: Write a line of poetry that includes some reference to the color blue without explicitly stating the word “blue”.
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