Nature's Shade

It is the very shade of nature ...

In great seas of ocean waters deep

On waves of forest tree tops wide

Touching skin of symbolic reptiles

Even its sound is like the feel of algae

Smells like fresh cut lawns in summer

Tastes of Matcha, but not my cup of tea

So does the apple Skittle …

🌈 Taste the Rainbow 🌈

It is even the way we express so much

The shade of one most envious

A sickly hue of one under the weather

Gardener's thumbs, good ones that is

Oh, and my favourite type of eyes, emerald

But of this shade, this oh-so common hue

The greatest and kindest among us

That wonderful amphibian, once said of it,

‘It’s not easy being … ’

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I actually really struggled with this one after being given the colour I was challenged to do by the one and only Oneg! If I had chosen, it would have been pink 🩷 that's my favourite! But I wanted to rise to the challenge, and golly gosh, happy to have been given such a challenging colour to write about.

This poem is for the second challenge in James and Oneg's August Summer Writing Extrav-again-za! The time the challenge is to either choose your own, or have someone give you a colour to write a poem about. Use all your senses to describes and visualise that colour. The challenge: don’t say the colour that you were given in the poem itself. Synonyms are fine (For example: can’t say red, can say crimson)

You can find out more about the Summer Writing Challenge Extrav-again-za below:

You absolutely must check out the entry by ROCK! It's incredible and just such a wild beautifully chaotic take on the challenge that had me wrapped from word one!