What Shade of Blue


What shade of blue evokes a song?
The throbbing glint of swallow wings,
the tinted pall entombment brings
when loneliness has sighed too long;
the waves that through life's portal sweep,
the iridescent sands of sleep;
and butterflies that don't belong
on trees now chilled, and sparsely lean.


What shade of blue resembles pain?
The turquoised slash of twilight's sword
on monuments that we have poured;
the girth of day's ill-fitting gain
tight-laced with cords of pulsing fear
that hope itself will disappear
till shadows without source remain
and time devours all that's been.


What shade of blue remembers light?
The azure notes of freedom's dance
when words of innocence entranced
and eyes were hued with love's delight;
when now this shell in respite lies
and footsteps on fluorescent skies
reflect a soul's celestial flight
where blue exists in shades unseen.



© Laryalee Fraser