Cornflower Blue
by Alys Caviness-Gober
Title
Cornflower Blue
Artist
Alys Caviness-Gober
Medium
Painting - Acrylic
Description
"Cornflower Blue" ~ semi-abstract textured acrylic ~ and the poem I wrote, for my Dad (16 Oct 1933 - 23 June 2014)
Cornflower Blue
A simple weed along a roadside
or sprinkled through a field;
you called them bachelor buttons,
and their color matched your eyes,
we'd race to see who'd spot one first
~ for you ~
scanning across browns and greens
and pinks and yellows
for lone blue blossoms
proud and bright atop
long gray cobwebbed stalks
so tough and wiry,
resisting the farmers' scythe
like steel covered in soft down,
bolstered by perfectly placed leaves
painted by nature's Vermeer,
each star-like blossom supreme,
rising head and shoulders above the other weeds;
my eyes automatically dart
left to right as I drive on,
and the old tunes play on;
Billie mournfully sings
one of your favorite songs
(Mandy is two
you ought to see her eyes
of cornflower blue)
humming along I still scan
the weeds along the roadside
tumbled and jumbled together
all the browns and greens
and pinks and yellows,
still I search
for a bright spot of cornflower blue
as if I'll see you again;
they were always your favorite ~
you loved them
because they looked like you.
© ACG
23 January 2015
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January 26th, 2015
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