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.