The Colors of Feeling

The Colors of Feelings:

What do they mean?

Feelings? Happy?

Mad? Angry? Sad?

Like the colors

On Van Gogh’s Palette,

Wild, bold, swirling

The combinations infinite-

Deep violet, yellow hues

Explosive greens,

Mad roiling Blues,

Ochre, celadon, scarlet,

Mixed feelings ever moving,

Different shades, some tinted,

In the heart,

In the head,

Once primary colors

So mixed they no longer

Recognize the other.

What are these colors,

These feelings, trying to say?

See me, they say that.

Don’t blend too much

Or you’ll end with black.

I am searching,

For the light in the midst,

of all this-

The perspective’s not quite,

Perhaps a touch of white?

To highlight

Some of these disconcerting sights,