Blue
- Brian Turner
The sky is blue with a blue
we imagine without trying,
used to anyway, before
screens filled too much of one's
days. I saw blue in you today.
Nothing got in the way.
Your skirt flared
as the door slammed
on hearts heavy with hurt
then lifted a little
as you rounded the corner
of the house, and I thought
petulance gets none of us
anywhere conciliatory,
nor misunderstanding,
and nasty intent sours
when the issues are our
own, mainly, not the other's.
So the question is, Who's
playing a game, and with
whom, and to what end?
I saw blue in you
that may have come
from me today. If so
I'm sorry. Blue gets in the
way too often I know.
I deeply wish it wasn't
so. How about you?
- Poet, essayist, biographer and environmental activist Brian Turner received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2009. He lives in Oturehua.
