From vibrant, enchanting, shades of purple hue
To delicate violet and sapphire blue
Symbols of grace, beauty and royalty
Whispering love, devotion and fealty
Earth's purple lavender canopy
Portends peace, amid the world's brutal chaos and anarchy
Chancely, a purple lens colours life's burdens, enigmas, and endlessly clashing refrains
Scripted by Alice Walker's purple-inked pen, dipped in society's ills and disdain
Seen through Jimi Hendrix's purple haze dreams, angst, and pain
And heard in Prince's prophetic, dire, judgement day's purple rain
Meadows of brilliant, pale-purple, mauve petaled feathery spikes
Magical places for tots and tykes
Spectacular, lavender-crowned wonderlands
An earthly paradise for romantics, of all ages, styles, and strands
Fragrant lavender oil blossoms, an eternal and blessed sensory delight
Upstaging, aromatic tuberose, magnolia, jasmine and queen-of-the-night
Purple lavender denoting in the present and the hereafter, sweet serenity and calm
Besutifying wreaths, candles, potpourri, lemonade, teas, soaps and balms
Warm, woodsy-mint perfume, seduces honeybees and butterflies breezily
And gifts to all, purple pride, power and pizzazz so freely
La vie en purple; nature"s unique tokens of beauty and glory
Starlings, artichokes, lionfish, tulips, sea-snails, coral, beetles, amethysts and pansies
Albeit, lavender forever plays the starring role, of this splendid stellar story.
© 2023 by Irene Fowler
Quotes:
"I think 'The Color Purple' is :so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe." - Alice Walker
"Lavender is the ultimate symbol of beauty and grace." - Unknown
