The Colours Of Light Poem by Dorothea Mackellar

The Colours Of Light

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This is not easy to understand
For you that come from a distant land
Where all thecolours are low in pitch -
Deep purples, emeralds deep and rich,
Where autumn's flaming and summer's green -
Here is a beauty you have not seen.

All is pitched in a higher key,
Lilac, topaz, and ivory,
Palest jade-green and pale clear blue
Like aquamarines that the sun shines through,
Golds and silvers, we have at will -
Silver and gold on each plain and hill,
Silver-green of the myall leaves,
Tawny gold of the garnered sheaves,
Silver rivers that silent slide,
Golden sands by the water-side,

Golden wattle, and golden broom,
Silver stars of the rosewood bloom;
Amber sunshine, and smoke-blue shade:
Opal colours that glow and fade;
On the gold of the upland grass
Blue cloud-shadows that swiftly pass;
Wood-smoke blown in an azure mist;
Hills of tenuous amethyst. . .

Oft the colours are pitched so high
The deepest note is the cobalt sky;
We have to wait till the sunset comes
For shades that feel like the beat of drums -
Or like organ notes in their rise and fall -
Purple and orange and cardinal,
Or the peacock-green that turns soft and slow
To peacock-blue as the great stars show . . .

Sugar-gum boles flushed to peach-blow pink;
Blue-gums, tall at the clearing's brink;
Ivory pillars, their smooth fine slope
Dappled with delicate heliotrope;
Grey of the twisted mulga-roots;
Golden-bronze of the budding shoots;
Tints of the lichens that cling and spread,
Nile-green, primrose, and palest red . . .

Sheen of the bronze-wing; blue of the crane;
Fawn and pearl of the lyrebird's train;
Cream of the plover; grey of the dove -
These are the hues of the land I love.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Jordan 04 November 2020

Very good and I loved it

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M Asim Nehal 20 December 2018

Wonderful poem. I quote: Sheen of the bronze-wing; blue of the crane; Fawn and pearl of the lyrebird's train; Cream of the plover; grey of the dove - These are the hues of the land I love.

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Bumhole 31 May 2018

Made me see my true colours of my bumhole. Truly wonderful poem πŸ’§πŸ’§πŸ’§πŸ’§πŸ’§πŸ’§πŸŽπŸŠπŸ‹πŸ₯πŸ‡πŸ†πŸŒˆπŸŒˆπŸŒˆπŸŒˆπŸŒˆπŸŒˆβœ¨βœ¨βœ¨βœ¨βœ¨βœ¨β­οΈβ­οΈβ­οΈβ­οΈβ­οΈβ­οΈβ›„οΈβ›„οΈβ›„οΈβ›„οΈβ›„οΈβ›„οΈβ„οΈβ„οΈβ„οΈβ„οΈβ„οΈβ„οΈπŸŒ¦πŸŒ¦πŸŒ¦πŸŒ¦πŸŒ¦πŸŒ¦πŸŒˆπŸŒˆπŸŒˆπŸŒˆπŸŒˆ

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