Desert (Photo credit: Moyan_Brenn)
Beige is the colour of guilt
Cream white besmirched by dirt
A half-hearted hue,
it is dull dismay left over
drying on a concrete floor
Maroon the colour of regret
Blood soaked purple lost
like something decaying
in the wake of sad mistakes
we cannot evade or forget
Grey rises slowly as doubt
A rain-soaked sky,
bleeding clouds that waft
without purpose, only blotting
out indifferent sun
Ochre is the result of days
lost in this desert
We are baked and steeped in a past
half painted and half lived
Carrying our sins to lie in wait
for blessed vultures to descend
(c) Helen Valentina 2013 All Rights Reserved
For mindlovemisery’s Prompt 30 – Colour, at : http://mindlovemisery.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/prompt-30-color/
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Brilliant Helen! I could feel every color. Profound and beautifully expressed =)
Thank you!! 🙂 🙂
Excellent poem Helen, very vivid as colours tend to be, though there is a sense of foreboding about the piece.
Thanks – I was aiming for foreboding and portentous, so it sounds like it worked!! 🙂 🙂
I love beige being the color of guilt! I have never thought about beige like that…
Thank you – neither did I until I thought to myself for the prompt, what would the colour of guilt be, then I thought of something creamy white that has been stained and made dirty, and came up with beige! 🙂 🙂
Helen, this was a wonderful answer to the prompt. You brought each color to life for me. Loved it! 🙂
Thanks Skye!! 🙂 🙂 xxx
is that why my mum puts out dads clothes and all he is allowed to wear is beige – or a derivative thereof? Delved deep into the colour wheel Helen and a very dramatic write.
LOL,possibly…who knows??? thank you!! 🙂 🙂
🙂 Love the colors your picked!!!! Never thought of beige as being the color of guilt. Your writing is always beautiful and the colors picked are amazing.
Thank you, that is so kind!! 🙂 🙂
Very welcome 🙂