when I was a kaleidoscope

when I was a kaleidoscope, a Pantoum

I was glitter and sparkle, a shimmering kaleidoscope of unabashed joy

My mouth opened in giggles of delight sending out rainbow tinsel

Decorating everyone and everything in life’s cascading celebration

Childhood can be like that in all its innocence and wide-eyed anticipation

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My mouth opened in giggles of delight sending out rainbow tinsel

I feel into the pleasure of being that child of vulnerable bliss in full expression

Childhood can be like that in all its innocence and wide-eyed anticipation

Coloring my world in primaries from the inside out and in the all around

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I feel into the pleasure of being that child of vulnerable bliss in full expression

Holding the remembrance of my wanting the bright red as opposed to pink

Coloring my world in primaries from the inside out and in the all around

There was no one to impress or dull my golden radiance in my blue sky

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Holding the remembrance of my wanting the bright red as opposed to pink

Not settling for brown or cloudy grey when spring green danced me alive

There was no one to impress or dull my golden radiance in my blue sky

Even under a dark moon making shadow talk of all that noise that color speaks

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Not settling for brown of cloudy grey when spring green danced me alive

Decorating everyone and everything in life’s cascading celebration

Even under a dark moon making shadow talk of all that noise that color speaks

I was glitter and sparkle, a shimmering kaleidoscope of unabashed joy