And it was all yellow...

Next up in the series is... you guessed it! Yellow (gold, ochre, amber, sepia, daffodil...whatever you want to call it). Yellow has always been the color of optimism for me- never overbearing, just bright enough to make me smile. This poem pays tribute to that particular quality of yellow that means light, joy, and hope.

~Yellow~

When the sun shines, you’ve got to catch it

Save it for those amber-colored days

When the lemons won’t turn to lemonade

Because you ran out of sugar last week

Save it for that faded moment

Of sepia-toned memories

Playing like a reel behind your eyes

Maybe a remnant of a sunny state fair day

Or a flash of ribbon resting in her dark hair

Mmm- if I could, I’d fry your smile

In golden butter

And dip it in mustard

Before gobbling it up,

Licking the crumbs off

My fingers

And slurping the juice off

My plate

When the sun shines, you’ve got to catch it

Soak it in.

Grow your seed into a

Sunflower

The daffodils will never

Lie down of their own

Accord

Sand is not just for martinis on the beach

I crush my own shells each spring

To spread on the concrete

When summer pulls me outside to

Bask and bake in the warmth

When the sun shines, you’ve got to catch it

So when you find yourself

Sunken in the yellow quagmire of thought

Inside when you should be out

Foot stuck in the emotional sap

Of your years

Take the bronze hand held out to you

And get some of that shine on your soul

The sun’s out.

~P. Desai (2011)

"Ever the Optimist"- 09/03/2010 (P.Desai, 365 Project)

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