'Lift-Off (Rev.) 04/12/09 Poem by Margaret Alice

My day was
jewels shimmering in
brilliant sunshine

tonight
I look for
blue

for pictures in
translucent blue, sunsets with
golden flecks, green
gives me the creeps

Purple sunsets, blue with
golden specs, I’m desperate for translucence,
the freedom of sky, the setting of sun

As I turn pages in a magazine
my mind goes no, not this, I
need translucent blue

I need to lift off
from planet
earth...