Is not man exaggerating a lot
When he gives fantastic names to something he has bought
Its hard to find someone who calls a spade, a spade
For the advent of new words had been introduced in every trade.
Take the world of clothes for instances
Are you prepared for the names they do give
To the different shades and hues
That in your imagination live?
They call white – ‘frost white’
Even ‘coconut white’ would do
Pearl’s yet another name
For the same set of hue.
Peppermint green is now in vogue
But there are so many sorts of green
In the peppermints that we do eat
So how to determine the sheen?
‘dawn pink’ is popular with the teenagers now
Who greet it with an explosive ‘wow’
But what I just cant imagine is
How dawn being orangish, could be branded pink??
Another name that puzzles me a lot
And indeed touches a really raw spot
Is ‘gay blue’ – how can one be gay if the blues are around him
At least in the use of words couldn’t man be proper and prim.
Pray, tell me also what ‘fantasy’ is
Is ‘fanfare’ a colour somewhat similar to this
And then there’s ‘vapour’ which troubles me too
For how could man know, its very exact hue?
And what about ‘fresh cream’
I thought it was a dish
And if there is a ‘kingfisher’ blue
Why not something alluding to fish?
Cloud grey, orchid and delphinium blue
Are some of the shades that are now on view
While bitter lemon, pistachio, almond and musk melon
Are colors, not eatables, that would entrance even Helen..
‘charcoal’ and ‘steel blue’ have succeeded in making me mad
‘tusk ivory’ was another that exposed man’s fad
And another last question, before my list is over
Does ‘spring’ depict a green colour, or that of a fruit or flower?