Colors

bunch of poems I wrote related to colors. (2017-2018)

RED
Red red lips
Makes me wanna turn’em pink
Don’t speak, don’t talk
let me smudge those red lips
let me turn them pink
Red red lips.

BLUE
She was blue, so blue
blue like the sky
blue like the lines in a notebook
blue like the ocean
blue like sapphires
blue like hidden sadness
She was blue, so blue.

YELLOW
Yellow sunshine yellow
Yellow hair yellow
yellow like sunflower yellow
Yellow, happy yellow
Such a baby yellow
She looks so good in yellow
Yellow, happy yellow.

GREEN
Green eyes like trees
green plants on her hands
socks are green on her feet
green leafs on hair
What a nice grin she had
Green eyes like trees.

PURPLE
Purple sky and eyelids
Purple like lilies
as my mother used to say
purple aroma then, I said
purple nail polish
broken on her nails
Purple like the grape she ate.

ORANGE
Orange shorts hugging her legs
Orange like oranges
Orange like autumn
Orange like the books she used to read
Orange fruit, sweet but bitter.

BLACK
Black like her heart
black sadness
When she saw black
or when she stood in black
or when she wasn’t even drawn in black.