Colours of Twilight

Colours of Twilight

Purple

Lost on the mountain,

Someone is singing

To Salvation Jane[1].

Green

Concealed by rushes,

A stream chuckles softly,

Hiding its silver.

White

Wild jasmine thickets

Swim ghostly and perfumed

In the ruin’d garden.

Yellow

The man in the moon

Leaps from the castled clouds

Into the cold lake.

Grey

The wind’s questing hand

Plucks the gum nuts gently.

It drinks from their cups.

Sable

Magpies creak unseen

On beaked, black branches,

Like rusty metal.

Crimson

The day’s last banner

Smouldering on the hilltop,

Yielding its colours.

Heliotrope

Answering his song,

Swift star-fire plunges

Across the night sky.

Navy-blue

Darkness stirs the dust;

The dreaming dead awake,

Drifting like thin mist.

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[1] A weed, Echium Pelagineum, also called Paterson’s Curse.

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