fascinating colors

NafisaSB

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?

 

  • Author: safina (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 7th, 2022 00:38
  • Comment from author about the poem: enjoy reading the fantastic names given to various colors - definitely colors our imagination a brighter hue
  • Category: Fantasy
  • Views: 23
  • Users favorite of this poem: L. B. Mek
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  • L. B. Mek

    personally
    I will just be happy
    if I didn't have to 'LITERALLY'
    hear the word 'LITERALLY'
    in every sentence: 'LITERALLY'...!
    (good on you for trying, dear poet
    me, I'm more cynical
    and like Rick Rubin
    and his fake funeral for the word 'Def'
    I have already come to terms
    to the exponentially limitless
    demise
    of the English language..
    I mean, here we are
    the most widely educated generation
    in the history of humanity
    and the best eloquence
    we come across
    'on da daily'
    is so inanely, trite
    'innit tho, for reals... reals'
    .
    .
    'LITERALLY!'
    (and no, 'slang'
    or other people's 'supposed' culture
    has little to do
    with the universal dummying down
    of language
    in our universities and state offices)
    lol
    or I'm just an old cranky, has-been
    ranting
    for the sake of ranting, who knows



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