Red <br /> <br />Emotionally tense <br />Evoking thoughts <br />Of sexy red lips <br />And swaying hips <br />Strolling through <br />Red-light districts <br />Or <br />That red devil <br />Lighting fiery matches <br />Boiling blood pressures <br /> <br />Blue <br /> <br />Color of sky and sea <br />Symbol of depth, stability, <br />Loyalty, trust, <br />Faith, heart and heaven <br /> <br />Red and blue <br /> <br />When swirled <br />Together with <br />My sabled brush <br />Produce noble shades of purple <br />Threaded with spirituality, <br />Wisdom, creativity and mystery <br />And me the painter of <br />His Mountains majesty <br />Sitting on top this <br />Heavenly hill <br />Before my blank canvas <br />Trying hard to remember <br />To paint shadows with <br />The color <br />Purple instead of <br />That dark <br />Tube of my <br />Paines’ grey <br /> <br />(The Mountaintop, Tennessee <br />August 3,2006)<br /><br />Debora Short<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/plein-air-painting/
