that downhill yelling

Colours of the Sea: Blue/Yellow
Blue as dolphin fins
yellow as seagull chicks.

Blue as waves frilled by ice
yellow as sun yolk cracked
at breakfast.

Blue from the inky depth,
octopus and galleon skulls,
yellow from the creamy sand
chippy fat and fish fry.

Then along the shore
a café painted bright
'Captain Café,' blue cap
yellow ropes
and icecream,
blueberry and golden honeycomb

lick the colours together.

Speckle juice

can be found

in special road holes

where me and my brother

ride our bikes

through after-rain

puddles fast, fast

spatter, spatter

back wheel stirs

That's another word for camouflage

those grey kangaroos

sit tall like whiskered bark

of grey trunk trees

and the shadows catch knees

and deer-like ears,

eyes that glisten fear,

so hiding shapes

to textured colour

and breathing in

    breathing out

through sunlight and bird call

From out of bush

come to our front lawn

doe-face, brown fur

dressed like tree bark,

green grass to snatch.

Mother, joey, young male

mouthfuls on all fours

then lifting to chew,

to sniff all around danger.

Alert ears twitching

a noise, twig snapping

       then

tail, back legs pushing

leaping, highjumps bounding

across road and into the brown

©Poems by Lorraine Marwood