Crayon Colors

Circumstances and situations do color life, 

but you have been given the mind to choose

what the color shall be. 

John Homer Miller

Crayon Colors
By Elece Hollis

Were these colors in my crayon box

With woolly white of grazing flocks?

I remember periwinkle blue,

Olive green and slate grey too.

Sandy beach and sycamore bark

Cinnamon twist, twilight black, 

Bittersweet orange and yellow-green 

With timberwolf gray sandwiched in between.

Chestnut, raw sienna, Indian red

With sea-foam floating overhead;

Just a touch of atomic tangerine

Cornflower blue and asparagus green.

I loved my box of sixty-fours

And when I take a walk outdoors

I find the colors still in mind

Crayons trained my heart to find.