Poem of the Week * May 5 to May 11, 2002
Life and Spirit As Evidenced in the Colors By Every Living Thing


Selective sight makes it impossible for most people to see them.

The quality of color changes with mood and attitude.

Anger and inner turmoil, vacuumed loneliness,
or deepest sodden passion
are expressed in reds and blacks.

Browns extend deep into the planet through magma,
reaching past dangerous red,
back out to black space as far as edges can reach.

Blue, a focused calm.
Blend it with white ~ in froth it becomes playful.

Green feels invitingly mellow, but alive.
Moss so cool and refreshing.

Yellow is immediate and wide awake.
Jonquils first of spring!
They command attention.

Lavendars to pinks are ticklish expressions
of passionate confidence and joy.

Nature dishes purples out to us in splashes of sunset accents,
early morning mists,
towering snow capped mountains
and summer's grand display of spikes, clusters, and single fragile blossoms.

I am all these colors.
I can look within to see the rainbow which stretches and turns. 

I turn my inner sight to see that which radiates about me.

I sense the unseen force of it in all that lives.

A rock radiates life and color even though it does not appear to breath.

We all share this energy force, our colors merging, our spirits touching.

It's a thread that connects us to all life, to each other, to all things.

That thread is a rainbow of light, of ideas, of emotion and it never ends.
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April 2002
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