Azure

PAD Challenge day 19: make a color your title and write your poem

I lost her in your endless eyes

While she was chasing butterflies

Through fields of periwinkle youth

Before the cuff of crimson truth

Dragged her through mud and umber dirt

Where still nature’s four seasons flirt

With things like holding-letting-go

And emerald isles and white-white snow

She turns, startled to realize

She lost herself in azure eyes

…forgetting that in tick of clocks

Come silver sighs through golden locks

Where time takes flight
In dark and light,

Its ebony, chartreuse disguise

Yielding at noon to azure eyes

And there, ah, there, she twirled and danced

To melodies by love enhanced

Letting the hour have its way

Before your azure turned to gray

And giddy kiss of coral dawn

Drew charcoal shadows on the lawn

Beneath an awning sequin-swept

And where your azure laughter wept

She disappeared; you kiss her face

But now a woman takes her place

© Janet Martin