There is No Colour in Goodbye, poetry by Johnch at Spillwords.com

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There is No Colour in Goodbye

Johnch·May 19, 2025

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There is No Colour in Goodbye

written by: Johnch

Tears bleach the colour from her cheeks
One sob bleaks the indigo mood
Grasping hands knuckle to white

Even the moon is wan in its despair
The Milky Way aches in white

lips wracked white holding the sobs
Blanche the indigo mood…

NOTE:

Based on the Prompt – The Color of Goodbye

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John writes poetry as a means of capturing the roaming sentences that spring to mind at any time often a reaction to his environment at the time. His poetry blog - Underlined on WordPress.

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After a long career tinkering in telecommunications, Jim Bartlett switched to tinkering with writing fiction, both requiring a stretch of the imagination. In the course of putting his fingers to the keyboard, he's been fortunate to have quite a number of his stories featured both in print and online in several wonderful publications, including a story selected for "The Best of Fiction on the Web, 1996 – 2017" anthology. While mentally he strolls along a warm California beach with his wife and golden retriever (shhh, she doesn't know she's a dog), physically they reside on a special little island in the Pacific Northwest.

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