REMEMBERING CRAYONS

Sixty-four colors

All in one box!

A Christmas gift,

Even though coloring books

Were not my favorite thing.

Why was it so important

To color within the lines?

Why couldn’t a horse be blue,

Or the grass pink?

But those sixty-four colors

Were really tempting.

So many choices.

Some awful like “Flesh”

Which wasn’t.

And Silver and Gold

Which weren’t either.

I soon found favorites

Red-Violet, Burnt Sienna,

Orchid, Turquoise,

Sky Blue, Lemon Yellow

And plain Green and Red.

I played with the others

But they rarely made me

Smile the way my favorites did.

Sometimes I just liked to look

At all sixty-four sitting in the box

And think of possibilities.

That was good, too.