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COLOURS...
When I was a pretty little
girl of four,
My mother taught me all the
names of colour .
She said , " May , this is
blue , red , white and yellow !"
I learned all these out
with her in the meadow .
Miss Mary , my teacher of
Primary four
Taught the pupils to paint
pictures with colour.
I painted the sky blue ,
sea red ; indigo
Is the colour of dancing
flames burning low.
When I was twenty my boy
friend Antobow
Asked me my favourite
colour of rainbow .
I said , " My dear , be it
pink , red , white or blue ,
The colour I like most
has to do with you . "
My husband and I , we
have kids of our own ;
They asked their mummy
colours and the unknown.
And I said, " This is
yellow, blue , green and cream .
All these reflected
in yonder sparkling stream !
Now my world is a world
of seen and unseen ,
Yes, my favourite colour,
non other , green ;
As it reminds me of trees
, grass , leaves , seedpod
meadows , mountains ,
forests ; all created by God !
~Agatha Lai~
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