Colour Tone Poems

Happy yellow

Filled

Endlessly

By the unknown.

A soul cup

Forged from

Blessings

Forte

Gently brushed 

With gold lustre

By a passing

Angel wing

The elixir waterfall

Streaming over

Pure joy 

Sparkling

Given to 

You with 

A cheers.

These pink butterflies

A flurry

En masse

Flying high

Cherry blossom 

Petals

In the tornado eye.

This blush shade furoshiki

Wrapping 

A passion seed: 

My secret

To its calm centre

Of sweet coumarin.

Creeping in

The daylight glow

A golden repair 

For this makeshift 

Sakura locket 

Of spring and air.

Feeling blue

Our lost duet:

I 

Wandering

You

Vanishing

A broken chord

To a missed 

Shared kiss.

Blank white

Fields of 

Crêpe wheat and corn

On curled parchment

Glacê iced and powdered 

With the occasional 

Dancing pampas grass

And the fabled silver hare

At dawn.

The marbled water trees 

Swaying 

In stormy sea ripples

Cream honeycomb foam

Darted 

In their seashell leaves

With lost feathers

Cascading down

Spring’s snowflakes

Caught in the 

Silkworm nests and

Dreamcatcher cobwebs

Of porcelain flower crab spiders

Their silk embroidery from

Delicate lace and strings

Framed with 

A halo ring of 

The universe

Sepia fliters

Applied.

Drifting through

This emakimono 

I go 

Of the equinox moon.

Happy yellow, these pink butterflies, feeling blue and blank white