It’s assumed that of all of the colours, Blue’s the most misunderstood, for where Yellow is mellow and Green is serene, Blue is the absence of ‘good’. To some, Blue’s a feeling of sadness, hence why they say, ‘playing the blues’, but imagine what colours I’d sing of, if you spent one day in my…
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Prayer (A poem based on Adam Elsheimer’s ‘The Stoning of Saint Stephen’)
Based on Adam Elsheimer’s ‘The Stoning of Saint Stephen’. Prayer Lord, Repeat in us the assurance that this house is not our home, that no harsh word is without consequence, and that no trial stands without divine reason. When, rooted in our heart, the longing to pray for strength comes to the forefront of all…
Here, Besides
Based on ‘Woman with a Parasol Facing Left’ by Claude Monet. Here, Besides In cleansing a pigment-encrusted brush, who turns their nails to scrape the clay-colored sands and play with the corals that sprout from a cup of clouded sea? Where blue bonnets can be, who dares to wash a wonder that is a…
How Grand This Vision
How grand this vision of the mind that pesters for a place and lands in blind men’s buckets as the stems that form his base. How grand the height of humble hues- the youth of blazing sun, the portrait-grazing purples, and the beryl beads that run. How grand the reach of failure as the hands…
Right Handed Rhymer 
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