Colouring Lessons

Favourite colour?
Black, says she
without hesitation

I falter, stumble,
mind reaching –
who likes black?

Is that a colour?
It’s all colours!
She’s nonchalant

intent on task –
carefully keeping
within the lines

Of course it is...
ill equipped am I
to disagree, images

of dark somber
corners, sorrow
and death crows –

Why black? ask I,
composure forced –
had anticipated pink

equate childhood
with primary shades,
splotches of yellow

and rainbow skies,
candy red apples
on lollipop trees

But black? No –
black obliterates,
negates, destroys

It holds the colour
inside, she explains.
It’s the outline.

Not annihilation –
order; her mind
conceives of order

So much to learn
from innocence,
have long forgotten

the art of staying
within lines, finding
good in all things.

(Colouring Lessons first appeared here June, 2017. Image my own)


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VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

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      1. Thanks for asking, VJ. I’m doing well now. Ups and down have calmed down into a more peaceful flow of time. Motivation to be creative is slowly coming back. Thinking of doing a post soon. The smoke from the forest fires has been horrible for two days here in Northern Ontario. 😦 Waiting for rain to flush it all out. Maybe tomorrow. Hope things are going well for you. 🙂

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      2. I can only imagine how awful that smoke is – some of it has reached our area, although not as thick. I hope your creativity comes back. I have missed your unique style. Also good to hear you are finding a rhythm.

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