Meditation

       …Meditation

The quiet colors still remain when spring

Brings out the louder choir of daffodil

And jonquil voices.  Darker purples sing

Beneath the hedge despite the yellow shrill

Of trumpets.  Shadowed violets, still, give

Off redolence ultraviolet to

The needy nose and shaded green leaves live

Just underneath the little blooms, a coup

For nuances amongst the blare of whites

And waving pink on trees.  Block the yellow

Crescendos from the mind!  Treat them as blights

And search out something velvet and mellow.

  Or you can settle for a compromise:

 

    The calm of pale white violets for eyes.