Seeing Red

Over in the Garden Izy asked us to write a poem using a favorite movie quote.  I have trouble picking favorites, yet as I edited these photos an idea started to form.

I thought why not go with my first thought.  So, I selected one of my favorite quotes in the movie, The Wizard of Oz.  Close your eyes and you will see Dorothy tapping her ruby red slippers and saying:

 "There's no place like home."  

I had to include some yellow.  See,  the colors, red, yellow and green. They remind me of the movie.   I think of the colors as symbols.  Red-passion and anger, yellow-caution and green-go, discover, find. 

Izy always gives us a twist.   Her challenges are called  'Out of Standard'. 

The Challenge:

Share with us your favorite line of movie dialogue and then embed it into a poem which is not related to that movie or the character who spoke it in anyway.  Reinvent your standard for excellence.  Bring us the unexpected.

Color Map

Black as night

 I wander lost in pale light

 haunting thoughts blur

seeing red, not tickled pink

Green eyed monster 

knows the grass

is greener on the other side

of the fence

Monster sees yellow bellied

white elephant on the lawn

 dancing n' twirling

Once in a blue moon I remember

"There's no place like home" 

but lately

I want to run away

home feels like an ink blot.

 In my maze

time drips and my words

run and blur

 they try to run away

leap off the page

hoping to return

to their

sunny green thoughts

where fragile

stars bloom

and radiance

rains light.

© Ellen Wilson