Shades of Majesty What is the colour of majesty? Gold or purple seem too safe What about purple draped with pink That picks out marshmallow forms Squishy, porous, shielding sharpness A purplish-pink panorama, painted by light Or white in relief against darker shadowing under a pale yellow glow Hammered silver topped with white under a translucent pink veil Grey with more white floating above Or bright white with shadings of blue grey Shimmering like silver set off by shadowed secrets Deep blue with hazy white and the occasional fleck of yellow gold Shades of blue, gentling into a lightening green Blue fronted with purple, with orange-pink overtones Perhaps just grey, messy and indistinct, frayed at the edges, enveloping Or how about black fading gradually into a more defined grey rising into a deepening blue Before night overtakes And colours are memories It simply doesn’t matter… is the answer I’ve looked towards those mountains At every time of day now And visible or not They’re always there Majestic
Grant Shimmin is a South African-born poet resident in New Zealand since 2001. He counts humanity, the natural world, and the relationship between them as poetic passions. He has work published/forthcoming at Roi Faineant Press, Does it Have Pockets, The Hooghly Review, underscore_magazine, Dreich and elsewhere.
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