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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

A Picture and a Poem


Here's the picture I was going to post last week but couldn't. For those of you who know me well, this is a rare occurrence. I don't like having my picture taken, but I realized the most recent one I have of me is from last fall. Hence the rare post of a picture of myself.
I wrote this poem a couple of weeks ago for a poetry contest, and thought I'd share it.



Life's Colors

What color is life?

Let me show you

that through all the strife

you can see the blue

Blue for the sky, blue for the rain

Blue for everything that you gain


Life's color? Yellow

for the parts of being alive

that seem mellow

Making you not strive

as hard as before

until all else walks out the door


Pink is for the joy

in living on this earth

To sit still and enjoy

the wonders of this turf

Yes, life's color is pink

no need to think


What color is for

life's adventures

which are never a bore

in fact they're a quencher

going straight, not in a circle

the color for this is purple


And the color for the things unseen?

The things that whisper

in the wind? Green

Like a gentle and familiar sister

You know it's there

everywhere


There are many more colors of living

that I have no time to list

If you can be forgiving

I will leave you with this

If you can see through the grey

life's rainbow will stay

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