Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow! It is not a color. It is summer! It is the wind on a willow, the lap of waves, the shadow under a bush, a bird, a bluebird, three herons, a dead hawk rotting on a pole -- Clear yellow! It is a piece of blue paper in the grass or a threecluster of green walnuts swaying, children playing croquet or one boy fishing, a man swinging his pink fists as he walks -- It is ladysthumb, forget-me-nots in the ditch, moss under the flange of the carrail, the wavy lines in split rock, a great oaktree -- It is a disinclination to be five red petals or a rose, it is a cluster of birdsbreast flowers on a red stem six feet high, four open yellow petals above sepals curled backward into reverse spikes -- Tufts of purple grass spot the green meadow and clouds the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ENGLISH GRAVEYARD IN MALACCA by KAREN SWENSON HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE by SIDNEY LANIER AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS by HERMAN MELVILLE THE MODERN MOTHER by ALICE MEYNELL ENDURANCE by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN REMEMBRANCE by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS AN EPITAPH, ON A FOOLISH BOASTER by PHILIP AYRES |