Brown..... The Color ........... [what I Think Of When I Think 'Brown', One Of My Two Favorite Colors] Poem by Bri Edwards

I believe I’ve written about black,
purple, pink, and white.
That I may not have written about brown....
just doesn’t seem so right.
I’ve written of green, my other favorite color,
and now it is Brown’s turn.
I’ll try to guess why, from ME,
such a lofty rating Brown did earn.
I guess I’ve called green and brown my favorites.....
since I was a youth.
So their influence on me must have started there,
and THAT IS THE TRUTH.

I’ve said before “they both remind me of trees”;
that again I say.
Tree leaves were green and tree bark was brown.....
when, with my crayons, I did play.
And the earth is brown;
I saw it in Mom’s garden, and in the farmer’s fields.
Those are some pleasant “brown thoughts”....
my reminiscing yields.

Brown chocolate was a key ingredient...
of many candy treats,
and brown was the color of the girl’s eyes in second grade...
the one who made my 'heart' skip beats.

Brown was the color of deer, and rabbits,
and bats I encountered as a child,
and brown were the birds’ nests I climbed high to see,
the nests at which I smiled.

Peanut butter (brown of course) and jelly sandwiches....
I gobbled with delight,
and brown was the color of my bed frame.....
which surrounded me at night.

Brown was my hair color for nearly sixty years,
till I got “old” and grey.
AND brown’s the color of my wife’s eyes;
I look forward to seeing them open.... every day. (Honestly!)

(September 30,2013)