Spectrum Inside The Heart (For Judy Garland)
Spectrum Inside The Heart
With pleasure , I behold your paler unbraided blue
to find the crystal unknown that’s tied inside of you.
I reach out to touch the hair behind your head
to know those airy silken strands of unfurled red.
Beneath your orange tree we embrace to kiss,
and there I sing within my truer, freer happiness.
A golden archway unlocks your beating heart
I hold my hopes in awe, that you won’t depart.
You settle my being into greener fields of sunlit grass
to unlace me from the ordinary inside transparent glass.
You untie a longing wonder held within a regal hue
to reveal an interior—your darker deeper royal blue.
Arcing —you slumber down into fading violets
to reveal, undress your final cloth in quiet secrets,
that slip beyond my grasp in touch and sight
as you disappear to wither into brittle worldly light.
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© RH Peat 1/29/2012 11:31pm
Form: free verse, 4 quatrains/ 16 lines.
A love song to the rainbow: In memory of Judy Garland.
Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh.
My Challenge: to write a rainbow poem without the word rainbow.
Moving tribute to a girl who had a one of a kind voice.