Sitting as still as she could, save the darting of her eyes,
she feels the green pressing down upon her
oppressive, somehow angry
Sitting still as she hurtles down the tracks,
she remembers this same green in the Emerald City
she didn’t care for it as a child either
Sitting still and alone, she shifts her gaze to
the dying of the day out side, devoid of joy
framed by that unbearable green
Not the lush green of forests or parrots
But the intolerable shade that surrounds her
making her head hurt and her stomach heave
Sitting quietly, she bites her lip to keep from screaming
Sweat pops out on her clammy brow
she dreams of the pink and gold of elegant sunsets
purple and blue of the berries from grandmother’s garden
cegl 4.17.16
adventofreason 
she did not like the green 🙂
Well, not THAT green anyway. 🙂
Another interesting thought provoking poem. Excellent.
Thank you Frank. Hope you are doing well this week.
This is wonderful and the perfect image for it! peace & sparkles
Thank you my sweet friend.
hmn, not British Racing green… but cegl’s run run away green 😀 smoothie?
One of the themes that runs through so many of Hopper’s poems is this particular shade of green, which I find disconcerting for some reason. It puts me on edge. I don’t know why, because I love green. There was something you wrote once long ago that made me feel that same color of green in it. Weird, I suppose.
let’s let the eye, mine, twinkle questioning your grammar, did i disconcert you or remind you of what you always liked ? I seeing my scrapbook saving failures lately I’m not sure my last xanga saved as it’s expired and wouldn’t transfer, both of my major photostashes and an old hard drive of the first nifties i thought anyways went to the depths of memory, i saved the poems from previous to last xanga me though…. it’s almost like looking at them not through greens but oranges knowing there is a line that now is there uncrossable…those oranges flicker… you know metaphorically why *fire, just in case
wonderful !
Thanks! I have not been enjoying my spring because of my stupid allergies. I have been out of pocket but I need to keep moving forward to get all the prompts done this month!
Thanks!
I love this combination of write and Hopper art. 🙂
A good friend of mine introduced me to Hopper. He also introduced me to some questionable things as well. I like that.
😀 Questionable things, huh? like what? 😀
Nairobi Trio comes to mind. Hungarian Ducks. Stuff like that.
😀 The duck wasn’t Hungarian. He was simply owned by one. And the Nairobi Trio? Man, what would life be without them? 😀
The duck was total Hungarian. Qvack Qvack!!
That duck was from China. Peking Duck.