All things of desire—red
A sorrowful retreat—blue
Things of value—purple
A malice filled heart—green
Grieving the departed dead—black
A dove’s cry for peace—white

Cleansed and purified in and out—white
Passion to kill, bloodshed—red
A mysterious cave, concealing truth—black
Captive, a lost childhood—blue
The necessity of survival—green
Grandeur presence—purple

A mountainous human spirit—purple
Winter’s gift to the weathered—white
Fruits of life—green
Puberty journeyed to womanhood—red
Harmonica rhythms of grief—blue
Blind, robbed of color-black

Shoe without favoritism—black
Inner strength and confidence—purple
Emptiness and broken spirited—blue
Smile’s treasured possession—white
The attraction of lipstick lips—red
Beauty of nature’s backyard—green

Sense of insufficiency and envy—green
Monsters hiding in the dark—black
A slim dress, noticed—red
An elevated kite of esteem—purple
Being neutral and nonjudgmental—white
A world of suffering and imperfection-blue

Unbearable stream of tears—blue
Forever uniformed and wholesome—green
Optimistic perspectives—white
Those mute, robbed of speech—black
Having royal essence—purple
A means of seduction—red

Sadness—blue and uncertainty—black
Limited and lacking—green, beauty of acceptance—purple
Graceful spirit—white and lustful zeal—red

*Color is associated with feeling and emotion. Color is symbolic of life, its beauty and its grotesque. Color is a reflection of one’s rise and decline from exhilaration to depression.The use of color is not only for visual effect, nonetheless, it is also an indicator of perception and perspective. The use of color conveys a sense of sentimentalism and personal meaning.

The illustration is my original creation. It was drawn by using the Window’s Draw program or application. Of the six colors referenced in the sestina (fixed form prose poem), four are displayed: red, green, black and white.The illustration is a portrait of a young woman, though the colors represent different ranges of emotion and its two extremes: life and death, purity and corruption.