This is more of a stream-of-consciousness endeavor, though I did edit it a bit upon completion. It’s from my time in a poetry group back in Ashland KY, some time in 2011 or ’12… Some of the references may elude those born at the end of the 20th century, into the present… Sorry ’bout that…; -)~

Purple

Purple, the wearing of, the power of, purple passion,
purple haze, purple rain, purple stains of wine, of the lips
from “the Arrakine spice,” purple dreams–passionate
scenes, onions, one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple
people eaters, purple mountains majesties, purple
illusions—tragedies, shades of reds and blues, some of the
darker hues.

Red, better dead than, red faced, red handed, red neck,
red skin, the hunt for red October, big red, little red –
riding hood, the little caboose, red skies in morning, red
skies at night, what a delight. red eye, express, the red
planet in – red dawn, Red Skelton, Red Buttons, The Red
Power Ranger, and that badge of courage, the mask of the
red death, red hexagonal sign – STOP.

The blues – 12 bars, blue note, blue meanies, bluish, blue
blood, blue-eyed blond, off in the wild blue yonder, nothin’
but blue skies – from now on…, blue whale, the blue
barbarians, summer time Blues Magoos, Blue Oyster –
Cult, Blue Ridge Mountains, the deep blue sea, Blue Beard
got weird, blue plate special, in cobalt blue, gun blue, and
ice blue too.

The progeny of red and blue? Purple.

–LE