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| (Image from Balloon Elegance) |
A Bunch of Balloons
When life gets to be
blue much,
try to
green and bare it.
If that doesn't work to
grey-t and you
want to
yellow lot,
white not pick up
the phone and
orange to be
with me.
We can put our
reds together and
pink of all the
great reasons
for being alive!
Remember, as God
works in strange
and mysterious
beige, our
purple in life
isn't always
apparent.
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., A Creative Writer)
"I maybe say too much about how life really is!"
My Writing Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I was feeling really silly when I wrote this poem! And I gave this poem to Sandra—who was my first and only girlfriend—as a way to say "Call me if you are ever feeling 'down and out!'" Also, this poem is a testament to my love of color as a visual artist.
By the way, this poem's title is not the original title (although, I can no longer remember what that first title was), because someone who read this poem commented to me, "It reminds me of a bunch of balloons." In fact, Sandra may have been the one who made the comment about this poem reminding her of 'a bunch of balloons'—after I gave the poem to her—however, I don't recall specifically who said that.
Anyway, whomever made the comment about 'a bunch of balloons' (which, again, may very well have been Sandra), also suggested that I use "A Bunch of Balloons" as the title, instead of the original title which, as I recall, wasn't nearly as descriptive. And the rest, as they say, is history!
And this poem was also published on my "Small All White in the Forest" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Small All White in the Forest."
This poem was written in Salt Lake City, Utah.
-Paulee
https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com
This "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" Post No. 011 was edited on July 23rd, 2023.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
