Colour-glad

Two for Tuesday! Pick one prompt or use both…your choice!

1. Write a worst case poem. What’s the worst that could happen?
2. Write a best case poem. Take the worst and reverse it!

I've said it many times as I cook and eat,
 "I'm so glad food isn't black and white!" 

#1, worst case poem...

If food was simply black and white

How mundane meals would be

And what if every single bite

Tasted like broccoli

What if the colours of the world

Would change to white and black

And nothing that we tried would work

To bring hued beauty back

What if the sky was always dark

Above earth’s morbid shield

Without one glint or tint to spark

The lilies of the field

No gatherings on twilight’s brink

To watch the sun go down

No gold-orange-periwinkle-pink

Not even plain old brown

But, worse yet, while we drain Time’s bank

With colors everywhere

What if we never paused to thank

The One who put them there

© Janet Martin

#2, Best case poem

What if, wherever we would go

Nobody would be rude

Awed by the Artist’s color-show

And filled with gratitude

No blaring horn or glaring stare

No one finger salute

But everybody everywhere

Would kind and astute

Knowing that nobody can boast

The beauty of the earth

For even mankind’s uttermost

Can never author birth

No one can put the miracle

Inside a little seed

Or claim the canvas, ethereal

Where sun-stirred colors bleed

And who has earned the accolades

Of nature’s grand design

The hills and rills and bluffs and glades

The flower-laden vine

Thus, what if, wherever we went

Prevailed an attitude
Because of all we have been lent

Love's humble gratitude

© Janet Martin