A Ha'Sonnet Will Do
When the fireflies flicker off/on lighting night skies with visual song I think of you No longer blue I smile awhile
(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2016
Originally published advertising free at “If You Haven’t Got A Sonnet”
Kate’s wonderful poem “once upon a summer gloaming” on her site “anotherkatewilson” and the comment thread unintentionally started by Eugenia made me remember this ha’sonnet.
Black is passé
and orange, too,
one has to say
Death wanted blue
Nothing pastel
that won’t play well
Midnight seems right
(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2019
Shadows arose
consciousness fled
The pillow rose
to meet my head
All noted by
the bluest eye
with Persian fur
(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2019
In response to the 17 August daily prompt at the Brave & Reckless blog and based on the title of a seminal feminist book ‘The Bluest Eye’ by Toni Morrison.
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