Blue

This is National Poetry Writing Month and the NaPoWriMo Prompt today was to write a poem with a color as its title but to write against what people associate with it.  (Blue=Sad)  We are also to invoke the name of the poet (as in a ghazal) and to use a form.  (I chose the terza rima)  Finally, we must use a form of water in the poem.  So, here it is:

Blue

Sweet summer days for thee and me
We’ll lie upon the soft hot sand

And bathe in warmth of azure sea.

Blue sunny skies, marshmallow clouds

Like parasols in party drinks

Replace the cold of winter’s shroud.

 

We’ll weave our turquoise tapestries,

And savor sunny season’s heat

Enveloped in the tropic breeze.

 

Before return of winter’s drape,

We should move where it’s always warm.

So Gloria why don’t you escape?

G.K.Bostic - 4/1/11