Muted golds and passion's scarlet hues
Verdant greens and spiritual blues
Earthy browns which ground your place
Mysterious black in the realm of space
White expressing the purity of light
Orange evokes friendliness to our sight
Purples the domain of faith and royalty
Aqua blends blue-green liquidity of sea
Silver threads thin as air denote the intellectual lair
of ideas that travel on Mercury's wings
The beautiful gifts of Muse it brings

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Within the warp and weave of life
there are many colors and textures
Each are unique with many variations
Yours are woven in this rich tapestry
On this loom we guide strings of yarn
from tangled thought to final creation
Lift the shuttle to add definition and pattern
and bring them forward to be included
A push on the treddle pulls them tight
But just so as to prevent constriction
For there are spaces between the threads
in which flow light and air
In these are lessons beyond our sight

(c) Linda Gayton 2006