Purple Pizzazz–Color Your World

Photo: David Slotto

Photo: Victoria Slotto

 

Purple Pizzazz

you paint spring happy

blend colors with so much care

divine artisan

Linked to Jennifer Nichole Wells Color Your World photography prompt: purple pizzazz.

Purple Mountain Majesty–Color My World

Photo: David Slotto

Photo: David Slotto–Mt. Whitney, Eastern Sierra, California

gaia convulses
gives birth to massive mountains
strength is born in pain

Linked to Jennifer Nichole Wells prompt:  Color My World Purple Mountains Majesty

 

The Color Purple

 

Photo: Victoria Slotto

The Color Purple

I think, in my whole life
I have never missed the full moon

nor failed to hold my breath
at a glimpse of deep purple.

I savor kisses
of waves lapping at my ankles
the grit of sand between my toes

and sunshine,
always sunshine

reminding me of the warmth
of your touch.

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Yesterday, I stumbled  upon a wonderful photography prompt, Color Your World, hosted by Jennifer Nichole Wells. (Thank you to fellow dVerse participant, Majka for introducing me to that site). My goal is to use Jennifer’s prompts to spur me to daily poetry in preparation for NaPoWriMo.

As today is also Open Link Night at dVerse, I am also linking this there, hoping that you will also join us at the Poets’ Pub. If I am late in reading and commenting, that is because tomorrow I will be having cataract surgery.

The first couplet of this poem is taken from Mary Oliver’s poem “When,” published in her most recent collection, “Felicity.”