Blueberries. Muffins, cereal.
Remember? Most important meal.
Bluebonnets. Let’s stop for pictures.
No picking.
Road trips. Bickering.
Blue Jay. Don’t be so mean.
Nitpick.
Sapphire. My high school ring.
Lapis lazuli (and gold); blue-gold-blue-gold.
My add-a-bead necklace. A thief in PE.
The way I felt.
Denim. Gingham.
A boy’s nursery. Smurfs.
The onesie worn at night.
Moon.
Sky.
Ocean.
The picture on your wall.
Goodnight, Moon.
Icing.
Jell-o. Slush.
Fruit roll-ups. Your tongue. Your teeth.
The lips I kissed.
Oops! Your poop.
Great grandma’s hair. A smile.
Her loving reach. A mile.
The other woman’s streaks.
Her eyes. A frown.
Let down.
Your favorite color.
The shirt I wore when you told me.
The way I felt.
Blue.
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I’ve had some exciting news I wanted to share with you. My Barbie sonnet was the runner-up in The Missouri Review’s sonnet contest. You can see it (on this blue, but very happy) link here!
I love this. I don’t usually like stream-of-consciousness, but this is one I can relate to. So many moments etched in blue in one’s memory. Beautiful, Laurie.
Glad you like it and thanks, Patti.
“Sapphire. My high school ring.
Lapis lazuli (and gold); blue-gold-blue-gold.
My add-a-bead necklace. A thief in PE.
The way I felt.”
The rolling detail here is brilliant! but nothing prepared me for blue poop–I hope the person survived! (is that the kissed one?) What indigo and incredible fun! (I have a blue poem about a breakup–not near so much fun.)
Hehe… thanks. Sometimes if the kids eat stuff with too much blue dye, well then… it has to come out and it does (scary at first, though).
woohoo on the sonnet contest…great news laurie…and love me some blueberries…blue is such an atmospheric color…so deep, high with sky and ocean but also the emotions if things go wrong…tough last stanza…ugh..
my favorite color…love the sapphires and lapis lazuli, the oceans the seas…grandma’s hair…beautiful ode!
I have to say – I’ve never seen blue ‘poop’?! Hehehe! Loved the rest of the blueness, though.
Absolutely lovely! I like the way it resolves at the end.
This is a lovely reflection on a colour and all its varied associations and memories.
Laurie – love this – the list is a lifetime of blue and congrats on the sonnet! Wonderful! K
My fav colour, fav topics, water, sky, moon.
Beautiful anddddddd WTG you on the sonnet!
Congrats on the sonnet contest
Blue …the great color of the ocean 
Congrats Laurie on the sonnet! Love the blue you stepped through all the blues of life it seems. Enough booberry fruit roll-ups will produce blue poop and was the daddy ever surprised when he changed the diatty!
Congrats Laurie, and glad you have recovered from barbiedumb
Love your little blue poem. Keep up your witty good work.
I love the way to work the color to the point of exhaustion! This is very good, very thoughtful, with a killer last stanza. Very nice job.
Great poem. I love Good Night Moon. In general this is just a heart warming poem..All Hale the Color Blue.
a really soft landing there in the end….endearing…i like the cascade through blue…some making me laugh or smile…but the emotion in the end…it is intimate…
I think I’ve experienced every one… got a lapis lazuli drop earring (I wear one drop and one post) for my birthday and love blue and purple. But the poop? What the heck did that dog eat? Hee hee. This lifted my spirits a lot, and I thank you, Laurie. So glad to be back from… “The Computer Blues,” a week away from my beloved desktop, Sadie. Peace, Amy
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My favourite colour is blue…very nice poem.
Laurie–this is fantastic. I like where you took this color, to the extremes and back. Beautifully done, full of emotion, life, and color. Oh, and congrats on the contest, too!
A great ode to the color blue, which happens to be my favorite!
A rainbow of every shade and hue of blue–you got it all, and with a few chuckles along the way too!
well done Laurie
in comp I will roll on over and have a read – loved the blues in this brought each one alive right down to that blue slush I even caught the fruity flavor as I instantly sucked at the straw on to the next delight of blue – lovely Laurie – Lib
Laurie I love this!! So many beautiful blues. Lifting me up and then dropping me into that blue shirt. Congratulations on your Barbie sonnet!! It’s perfect
keeping my fingers crossed for you!
just been across and read your barbie entry sonnet – wonderful Laurie – wasn’t that the way! We thought that barbie represented an image perhaps to strive for – Lib
Thanks… my sister and I had a regular Barbie soap opera going on as we got older… lol
Loved this – loved this very much.
I like the running down of details, like the blue moments
Congrats on the Barbie sonnet ~
Congratulations! And I love your ode to blue, I love how you weave a lifetime of love and loss together with the color.
Great fun tribute to the blue palate. Love Great granma’s blue hair…!
Oh it’s so happy go lucky that end just sweeps your feet. You probably heard my head hit the blue lino floor from there!
Congrats on the contest.
Shall check it out after this.
Like the “blue” list. I ought to try out something like this one of these days. A very interesting and fun exploration.
Read your sonnet on the Missouri Review website. The first half brought back some memories. Playthings and play enforces certain beliefs and values, a valid warning and a young one would not have been aware.
oh my….this is GORGEOUS !!!
now you make me want to write my ode’s…tons n tons of them….
Denim. Gingham.
A boy’s nursery. Smurfs.
The onesie worn at night.
Moon.
Sky.
Ocean.
The picture on your wall.
Goodnight, Moon.
All blue above! But Congrats Laurie, on your sonnet! So everything’s not all blue then! Nicely!
Hank
Wow….. It would seem at first just a menagerie of random thoughts on the color blue, but it turns out to be one of the finest structured poems I’ve seen in a long time! Ended quite sadly though. I don’t know if it’s true, but it certainly has a punch to it. If it is true then I’m sorry for how you must feel. And for whoever has blue poop! And I’m also sorry that someone stole your add-a-bead bracelet in P.E….. Those kind of memories stick with me too Laurie… Many people in my life think I’m a bit strange for remembering little things like that. I think they are strange for not. Those are the things that color the world. Beautiful poem……
Thanks. The ending is not true, thank goodness. But I’ve been through something very similar.
I was crushed when my necklace was stolen… and I went to a Catholic high school. Each bead had a special meaning to me, as they were given to me for various reasons.
This is just wonderful… weaving a color throughout all these memories. Love it!
Love the focus on blue. Love the positive perspective, then that simple, final line. Nice work, Laurie.
Stream of consciousness writing about the colour blue, told beautifully in life’s little snippets. Nicely done, Laurie.
Pamela
Wow, Laurie. This one just picks up steam as it goes – and a really powerful ending – so simple and natural, yet I didn’t see it coming. Well crafted indeed.
OOps, congrats on the sonnet!
A lovely, evocative poem…..haunting and real.
And congrats on the award!
Lady Nyo
I really like this. Feels very free, but is actually brilliantly structured.
A great tribute to a great colour.
a mavelous ode to quite a lovely color. smurfs…nice
great grandma’s hair… : )
quite a collection of blue
Blue Jello? This color must have come after my time …
fun poem!
Fab news re Barbie sonnet ~ happy for you Laurie ~ love the blues
I read this and felt all the tenderness within. Then I thought hm … this sounds familiar, well, actually it feels familiar. And I look above and sure enough. I have read. But as I said, the second time around, I felt it.