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Yellow is a banana sweet and ripe before it turns spotted brown.
Yellow is the sun risen past the red and orange before it reached high in to the sky to become the blinding white
Yellow is the color of the caution light after the green and before the red that means STOP!
Yellow is he color of the leaf haven stopped producing chlorophyl as it drifts to the ground soon to become brown an brittle.
Yellow is a rain slicker dripping water on the floor from the peg in the hallway where it hangs.
Yellow is the color of the honey as it slowly runs from the spoon into the amber tea before you dip the spoon in to stir to sweeten the brew.
Yellow is the color of the lemon cut in half and squeezed for its juice to make the lemonade for the summer stand sold for 25 cents in a dixie cup.
Yellow is the color of transition. Yellow is the color of home and brightness. Yellow is the color of flowers and stinging bees. Yellow has a complexity of beauty.
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I like this! It is truly poetic without feeling forced into that category.
ReplyDeleteWhat I am most impressed by is the descriptions. Very beautiful and well though out. The only two that didn't feel like they held the same rhythm are the last two in the second stanza. (The color of honey and lemon). If you decide to edit this at some point, I would leave everything else alone and just look at those two lines.