(a pic in daughter's book; she coloured it)
Caressing the mirror
you bend your head backwards
wishing for your curled locks
kiss your knees
You wonder aloud if you could shade them
‘Barbie pink’
while I try to undo the knots
slow…
one by one…
You call out ‘Rapunzel!’
harvesting the tale in plush green shades
of your newly acquired vocabulary
Breathing azure, smiling sunflower
you weave scarlet dreams tinting the strands
spilling indigo hued dew
that shimmer fluorescent in your eyes
smiling in cherry red blushes
The vacuum in between the bristles
fills rainbow from your tresses
cocooning the shaft and me in you –
never-grey
All it takes is a brushstroke
to paint this naked journey
OpenLinkNight– March 2014
I missed the linky
for the colours prompted by Abhra at Poetics last week. Though this was not the
piece written for it, I am linking another one here based on the picture
coloured by daughter in her book.
awww - there's a beautiful tenderness in this... little girls and their hair... so lovely and so many dreams tightly connected with them... loved the rapunzel story when i was a kid...actually...still do...smiles
ReplyDeletesmiling sunflower....this is lovely...and has an innocence of childlikeness as well...a land of princesses....seeing yourself in them as well....lovely...
ReplyDeleteSo very colorful... love "spilling indigo hued dew"
ReplyDeletesweetness all over... :)
ReplyDeleteNicely done...love 'bending the head backwards so curls might kiss the knees'
ReplyDeleteI like how a mundane activity allows you to daydream in a very sweet way! Great use of colors and imagery!
ReplyDeleteI am impressed with your daughter's ability to color and also impressed with the colorful poem that you wrote! Smiles. I like the last line. Yes, all it takes is a brush stroke.......
ReplyDeleteSo love how you wove these colors together. And happy that you posted it on OLN. I missed that wonderful prompt. Life has been "interesting" the last couple of weeks.
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