Colors of My Canvas

Colors of My Canvas
by
Cathy Alden

Rough burnt umber wakes and lifts morning leaves as
yellow rises over the sleepy mountains.
Slumbering violet shadows quiver quiet-like in
the dawn of the forest.
Peeping through leaves from above, blue begins to add
its color while
yellow blazons strongly, pushing away the darkness
of the night.
Waiting in the gray foggy meadows, deer begin
to nibble delicately on the cool dewy green grass.
Greedy poppies raise floppy orange heads toward the glorious yellow sun
lifting higher in the sky to drink in light.
The raw sienna frame of the muddy clay-like bank cradles
the crystal clear river gurgling and kicking out
rough stones from its bed,
and as white and more white highlight and bleed
onto all that yellow has touched,
Morning breaks.