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Bleaching Out

A Breakup Nonette

By Gerard DiLeoPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Bleaching Out
Photo by Susan Wilkinson on Unsplash

Red on yellow will kill a fellow

A life of blues goes down in twos

Red on black means venom lack

Red-hand — underhanded

Too yellow tells so

Green gills unfills

My colors

Bleaching

Black

love poems

About the Creator

Gerard DiLeo

Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

Make me rich! https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/

My substrack at https://substack.com/@drdileo

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarran2 years ago

    My colours bleaching black, I especially loved that!

  • John Cox2 years ago

    Differences in perception, meaning and understanding? My colors bleaching black is both striking and suggestive of a hidden metaphor, but it eludes me unless the opening line is a clue to its underlying meaning.

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