Colors

Green

Is the calmest color I have ever seen.

Yet you may be thinking of the tempest-green

Of winter seas,

And of the roar of the waves

As they pass;

And I-well, I am resting

Under summer trees,

Content with looking at a blade

Of nodding grass.

Blue

Means to me a nearness human and true.

Yet you may look beyond the earth into blue,

And stand aghast

At the dawning vastness

Of the skies;

And I-well, I care little

For things that are vast

When in contentment I may look

Into your eyes.