"Colors Passing Through Us", Marge Piercy

Ciao  everyone!!

Today was just a crazy day!!

Has anyone seen the sunshine lately? Because today allll dayyyy it was dark and rainy where I live!! 

Welcome to the Sunshine State:)

But, to be honest, it wasn't really a bad thing at all..

Because of the type of day it turned out to be, I was able to spend some time with my mama and bake muffins and chill:) And take a walk in the rain. And work on writing. All very happy things:))

So, it seemed fitting on this creatively different sort of day to post a creatively different sort of poem.

Also, I found this silly picture in my phone from a day when my brain was probably melting down and photo art was all that seemed logical at the moment.

Do you ever have those days??

Well anyways... enjoy the poem!!!:) And next time the whole day turns black and rainy for you... go bake some muffins. I will tell you, it is a very productively enjoyable activity:)

 

Colors Passing Through Us

by Marge Piercy

Purple as tulips in May, mauve

into lush velvet, purple

as the stain blackberries leave

on the lips, on the hands,

the purple of ripe grapes

sunlit and warm as flesh.

Every day I will give you a color,

like a new flower in a bud vase

on your desk. Every day

I will paint you, as women

color each other with henna

on hands and on feet.

Red as henna, as cinnamon,

as coals after the fire is banked,

the cardinal in the feeder,

the roses tumbling on the arbor

their weight bending the wood

the red of the syrup I make from petals.

Orange as the perfumed fruit

hanging their globes on the glossy tree,

orange as pumpkins in the field,

orange as butterflyweed and the monarchs

who come to eat it, orange as my

cat running lithe through the high grass.

Yellow as a goat’s wise and wicked eyes,

yellow as a hill of daffodils,

yellow as dandelions by the highway,

yellow as butter and egg yolks,

yellow as a school bus stopping you,

yellow as a slicker in a downpour.

Here is my bouquet, here is a sing

song of all the things you make

me think of, here is oblique

praise for the height and depth

of you and the width too.

Here is my box of new crayons at your feet.

Green as mint jelly, green

as a frog on a lily pad twanging,

the green of cos lettuce upright

about to bolt into opulent towers,

green as Grand Chartreuse in a clear

glass, green as wine bottles.

Blue as cornflowers, delphiniums,

bachelors’ buttons. Blue as Roquefort,

blue as Saga. Blue as still water.

Blue as the eyes of a Siamese cat.

Blue as shadows on new snow, as a spring

azure sipping from a puddle on the blacktop.

Cobalt as the midnight sky

when day has gone without a trace

and we lie in each other’s arms

eyes shut and fingers open

and all the colors of the world

pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

 

 

 

Ciao for now:)

-TheRedLady-