Blue

Picasso paints a blue guitar,

Blue flowers, blue ladies, an old man with a brown guitar

Neck bent as if broken against a blue background

Jared declares love is like living in a blue Delft porcelain cup

Blue sapphires and bright diamonds on a blue couch,

Pretending you were born with blue blood

Carry a blue umbrella when it rains,

Wear blue sunglasses at the beach

Stare at bodies and not look away

Sing songs of blue rivers, blue moons, blue moods,

Paint your shutters and windows blue

To keep the ghosts at bay

Between green and indigo Lucille sits silent

Still waits to moan in minor 4/4 time

She gives as good as she gets

2-16-22

(poem written to a prompt: blue guitar)