The Colors I Saw

Like I said in an earlier blog, I live really close to the ocean, and I love the sea, or even just water in general. I love swimming, even though I’m not very good at it, unlike some of my friends. One of the things I love most about the sea is all the colors, so I try to write poetry about it, because I love poetry almost as much as I do writing stories. Anyway, here it is. This poem is called The Colors I Saw. I hope you like it, and please comment! I’d love to hear what you think!

Once upon the time, when the world was young, my grandfather told me

Look out, child, upon the ocean blue

And look at it with eyes young and untainted, and true

And tell me

All the colors you see

And I told him: I see the white-capped waves as they break on the shore

And the turquoise calm of the bay, and the azure of the tide pools, and many more

I see the candy colored sails of the little fishing boats, where they run

And the deep, impenetrable blue of the deep sea, dancing with the yellow of the sun

I see a deep green calm, where no humans go

The pink of the jellyfish, plastic-y green of the seaweed waving to and fro

And yellow, and pink, and blues from the fat fish who dart

The white sands swirling at the clear bottom always gives me a start

The ivory oysters, which lie on the seafloor like the pearls they mill

And the red of the blood from when a shark made its kill

I see the smooth slick gray of a dolphin tail

And the deep blue spout of a humpback whale

The baby pink of a starfish

The gleam of an oyster’s pearl, I’ve heard if you have one you can make a wish

And many more colors, too many to count

As I look out on the seashore, the number my eyes perceive amounts

What about you grandfather, what colors do you see?

- S.P. Kumar

The Colors of the Sunset in Paradise

Hi! This is another poem I wrote just for fun. I live close to the ocean, and the sunset always looks incredibly beautiful, so I thought I’d try capturing it in a poem one day.

It’s called The Colors of the Sunset in Paradise. I hope you like it!

As the sun dipped low

Over the mountains, just a faint glow

I swept my brush across the sky

And blended, mixed, and painted colors, on the fly

And then the sky stained with the colors of my sun brush

The colors, sharp, vivid, beautiful, as the song of a meadow thrush

Gold, pink, pale blue, red

Purple, orange, fiery yellows, and upon the fringes, the color of plain gray lead

But the gray blue of the sky, I had once thought so beautiful

Seemed paltry at the sight of this sunset, incredibly wonderful

The colors mixed and blended

To powerful oceans, majestic mountains, and placid lakes, beauty was added

The colors stained and merged together

I looked back once, so I would remember forever

The colors of the sunset in paradise

-S.P. Kumar