Colourful food Writing

2 creative works found

• Colour Me Purple...Illustrated...
  by Janis Zroback

  A mysterious color, purple is associated with both nobility and spirituality. The opposites of hot red and cool blue combine to create th…

  When I am an old woman I shall wear purple / 
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
 / And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves / And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.
 / I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired / 
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
 / And run my stick along the public railings / 
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
 / I shall go out in my slippers in the rain / 
And pick the flowers in other people’s gardens
 / And learn to spit. / You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat / 
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
 / Or only bread and pickle for a week / And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes. / But now we must have clothes that keep us dry / 
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
 / And set a good example for the children.
 / We must have friends to dinner and read the papers. / But maybe I ought to practice a little now? / 
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
 / When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple....Jenny Joseph This delightful poem that speaks of growing old in a wonderfully outrageous style was written in 1961 by Jenny Joseph who lives in Minchinhampton, England. / It is cherished by thousands of women throughout the world and practically everyone who enjoys its light humor wants to know more about its meaning and to learn about the author, Jenny Joseph... /

• the girl in the snow at christmas - by vampvamp
  by vampvamp

  In the cool glow upon white snow the little girl lay / making her snow angel feverishly she did play. / Up she jumped dusted the ice from h…