Colours of Music

In response to a prompt at 'imaginary garden with real toads': Bits of Inspiration ~ The Colors in a Song, asking us for a synaesthetic response to various pieces of music, I chose two:

Colours of Music

Jimmy’s a shimmy,

all colourless glitter,

or veering between

splashes of silver,

flashes of gold.

Then, when his guitar

screams along its cutting edge,

the noise is red, sharp red,

then ragged black, 

then piercing white,

easing down 

into purple haze.

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Ella is yellow

shining sunny. 

Then toffee gold 

deepens to mellow, 

softening caramel, sweet....

Now lifts into blue

as her voice soars,

swells and lingers, 

falling into 

a rhythmic fade:

pale yellow,

sunlight on water.