Colors

What is your favorite color?  That is a question you hear a lot.
We are surrounded by color! Even on a gray, gloomy day, colors can pop out.  This week I will post poems from Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neill.  If you visit The Writing Corner page on this blog, you can read about the  story of how this book of poems came to be published. Maybe you'll be inspired to write a color poem of your own!

The Colors live 
Between black and white
In a land that we
Know best by sight.
But knowing best
Isn't everything,
For colors dance,
And colors sing,
And colors laugh
And colors cry-
Turn off the light
And colors die,
And they make you feel
Every feeling there is 
From the grumpiest grump
To the fizziest fizz.
And you and you and I 
Know well
Each has a taste
And each has a smell
And each has a wonderful
Story to tell...