Colours
Bright colours on pastel shades
Telling black and white stories
Of purple tinted jelly beans
And brown and greenish flora
Indigo banners are now unfurled
Showing yellow violet and green
Rainbow trout with purple mouths
Swimming in a colourless stream
Oh show me the colours of life
To see it's light and shade
Through God's own kaleidoscope
Observing how they're made
Fade to grey or blush to red
In the petrified forest we see instead
Colours merging light and dark
Brown and maroon on each tree bark
Colour me an animal colour me a bird
Join up the dots and make a pattern
Draw me a sketch of the sounds you heard
on that spaceship to Jupiter and Saturn
Oh show me the colours of life
To see it's light and shade
Through God's own kaleidoscope
Observing how they're made
Observing every shade
Of colour that was ever made
Rick Varden
Sun 29th May 2022 18:04
Thank you Stephen. I originally wrote it as a childrens poem.