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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CALIFRONIA COLOR, by MARTHA W. LITTLE
First Line: Black the smoke of lassen's fire
Last Line: The spectrum of our sunburst state.
Subject(s): California
First Line: Black the smoke of lassen's fire
Last Line: The spectrum of our sunburst state.
Subject(s): California
Black the smoke of Lassen's fire,
Black the walls that end the quest
To pierce strange Mono's heaving breast
And quickly quell her mad desire.
Gray the wing of gull in flight,
Gray of fog from sea-born bowers,
Gray of Mission walls and towers,
Gray -- Kaweah's crannied height.
White is the foam of ocean's waves,
Restless, roaring, and resounding,
Loma's point to Del Norte pounding
In Big Lagoon and Jolla's caves.
Green of spring's fine Wedgwood tracing
Appears on Fresno's fruitful vines,
Lacy leafiness forms designs
To aid in nature's gracing.
Azure deep tints Tahoe's lake,
Nestled where the mountains mold
Their peaks into a cup to hold
Heaven's blue for human's sake.
Red of redbud and of Toyon,
Spear of snow plant so amazing,
O'er the snow its color blazing,
Beckoning from winter's canyon.
Glittering sheaves of gilded grain,
Glowing fields of poppies golden,
To the sun both are beholden
For their burnished, brilliant stain.
Lupines just inside the Gate
In royal hue deck Tamal's land.
Shasta's crest to silvery strand
The spectrum of our sunburst State.
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