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

From ‘100 More Reasons for Rhyme

by Fred. ‘Rick’ Varden 2023