Blue is the color of The Beautiful South
and the swear words to help you know Aliceit is power and sadness that combined with gold
makes a green known for envy and malice.
Blue is the tone of the angry dark sky,
It is ice cool, it is sirens and copsIt is powerful waterfalls, quaint garden birds
it is seasides and strutting peacocks.
Blue is the color of comfortable jeans
It is water- half the surface of EarthWe attach it to boys and their violent toys
Yet it's the shade that they chose for the Smurfs.
Lapis Lazuli, Sapphire, alcopops
All the valuable things- Chelsea's football socksFor the old to the new- there's a fashionable blue
Whether sex pills or willow plate pots.
To a wonderful hue then, wherever you find it
From the oceans right up to the skiesBuild a tapestry quilt from the various shades,
For we all need some blue in our lives.
Thanks for reading, S
