For dverse – 18 September 2025
Today’s MTB prompt is poetry with a colour motif:
Take one or more literal colours (not a fancy colour name)
Repeat the colour word(s) throughout the poem (e.g. refrain; anaphora, epistrophe)
use colour synonyms
Employ colour with its specific meaning to the poem’s theme. Let your colour motif(s) also become symbolic
Blue Is The Warmest Colour
Your dress shines blue – it is crisp and fresh and clean
Like an autumn-crisp sky after yesterday’s rain
Inside your flesh glows pink and vibrant too
And you hum a little – happily, no longer blue in spirt, trapped inside yourself
I see your colour strong and bright as a candle flame
At times it has struggled to shine amidst the chaos I have written you in
But now we are together and not held by a solitary thread
Our beings are tethered but independent
Sometimes we need each other, sometimes not
It feels like unspooling cotton spinning off a bobbin reel
We both have our own sense of being
And in that knowledge we shine – bright as blueberries piled on top of pancakes
Your presence has been a constant – certain as an ocean
Sometimes choppy – like falling rain tumbling from white cotton clouds
Sometimes soft – lapping in and out following its own story, of high tide and low tide
In these winter months it spits out wild, white horses when it rages
We see it and giggle – free as blue birds
We like it when the sea is shouting, choppy and brave – It tells a story
One that is constant but moving
When I am safe and feeling well my cheeks shine like apples
And my heart can slow down – safe in the knowledge of you
My eyes are starting to sparkle, blue, like yours now
Full of hope and a sense that I can learn something every day
It is a gift – to feel warm inside and I am glad I can share that with you.
JAE ROSE 