COLOURS

COLOURS

Orange

Orange is a carrot

And the orange I eat

Orange are these bright new socks

I wear upon my feet!

Yellow

Yellow is a lemon

Yellow is a star

Yellow is the sun

In the sky so far

Red

Red is an apple

Red is a rose

Red is the color of

My frozen, icy nose!

Purple

Purple is a grape

Purple is a plum

Purple is my favorite juice

Shall I get you some?

Green

Green is the grass

Under both my feet

And green is the broccoli

My mother makes me eat!

Black

Black is the night

And a witch's hat

Black is my Mom's hair

And that witch's cat!

More Green

Green are the branches

Budding in the sun

And green are many vegetables

Can you tell us some?

Blue

Blue is the ocean

Blue are my eyes

Blue is the sky where

The lonely eagle flies.

Brown

Brown is the mud

Brown is the bear

Brown is the color

Of my brother's hair.

The lovely things that I have watched unthinking,

Unknowing, day by day,

That their soft dyes have steeped my soul in colour

That will not pass away -

Great saffron sunset clouds, and larkspur mountains,

And fenceless miles of plain,

And hillsides golden-green in that unearthly

Clear shining after rain;

And nights of blue and pearl, and long smooth beaches,

Yellow as sunburnt wheat,

Edged with a line of foam that creams and hisses,

Enticing weary feet.

And emeralds, and sunset-hearted opals,

And Asian marble, veined

With scarlet flame, and cool green jade, and moonstones

Misty and azure-stained;

And almond trees in bloom, and oleanders,

Or a wide purple sea,

Of plain-land gorgeous with a lovely poison,

The evil Darling pea.

If I am tired I call on these to help me

To dream -and dawn-lit skies,

Lemon and pink, or faintest, coolest lilac,

Float on my soothed eyes.

There is no night so black but you shine through it,

There is no morn so drear,

O Colour of the World, but I can find you,

Most tender, pure and clear.

Thanks be to God, Who gave this gift of colour,

Which who shall seek shall find;

Thanks be to God, Who gives me strength to hold it,

Though I were stricken blind.