Let the Music In

Let the music play, just let go And you will see it Marvellous shapes, indescribable colours Tints and hues constructing a world beyond imagining You will feel it Textures soft like silk, hard as diamond Rough of solid granite, smooth as translucent glass You will taste it Savor its sweetness, relish the tang Yes, let…

Here comes the Sun

Stripes of blue, purple, rose and gold Water laps on the grey shore And around my toes Shimmering liquid metal Dark rocks are crowned in a nimbus of fire Black sky lightens to blue, to gold and red In the east, across the sea Here comes the sun

Colouring

Make it neat The right colours for the right pictures Stay inside the lines, don’t make a mess! Children know, they get it They splash the page with exuberance Green sky and blue trees Bright yellow grass under a purple sun Because why not? And lines, well, they’re just guidelines, right? Like a child colouring…

Sketched

My hands are pencil outlines My feet erased My body sketched in shades of grey I am the artist of myself Filling in the gaps Constructing the scaffold, the bare bones of me Is it time to lay some bricks pick up the paint brush And try to see What a little colour might bring…

Sunrise

Faint light appears in the east A baby day calls its infant greeting In beams of light lending colour to the world At night all is grey and blue and black But now the earth too wakes up With green and brown of leaf and bark and blade Green too, in the water, reflecting blue…

God’s Paint Box

When I see a rainbow halo around the setting moon I like to think that God is playing with His paint box drawing circles of colours to delight His creation Like when I see long streaks of cloud on a sunny day He is finger painting across the sky When sun sets through cloud all…