I slowly eat my cool green ice cream, spooning it out from the Styrofoam cup I carry, as my sandals clop along the sidewalk. I'm smiling and shaking my head as I eat this, knowing you'll never taste this mint coolness on your tongue, hopelessly allergic as you are. 1
It is an icy green, not at all like the green of the grass that I long to tumble down on, looking up at the sky as I rest my head on your chest in the clean spring air.2
When I was very little, I used to dress up for Hallo'een, in witches' robes, and paint my giggling face green so I could pretend. I was very little, still a baby, a tiny child, but you must've been almost grown...3
Almost but not quite as dark as that face paint are vegetables, incessant green health foods, the ones you refuse to eat. You stock your fridge with honey on bread, doughnuts, Hot Pockets, and still your figure is oh so lanky, like a green string bean I sometimes make myself eat. 4
And maybe one day I'll get a ring from you, with an emerald green stone, perhaps, to match this tumultuous place we live in. Just a slight thing, that stone, but enough for an outward symbol of what we must already know. I love you, utterly, and you love me, too.5
I could never stop gazing into your lovely green eyes.6
Author notes
Part real, part my own daydreams (CL will know which are which). I liked the idea of basing a whole vignette around the colour of a lover's eyes, and so I wrote one.
What did you think? Please comment!
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Thank you!
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This was absolutely exquisite! I thought it was positively beautiful how you made each element, each individual item of green relate to the others and kind of tie your whole story together. And each item was so unique that it's very cute how you tied them all together in the end! Personal experience talking in the love department maybe? Excellent write, I'm very impressed. Keep it up, you have lotz of talent!
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Thank you! You're right, after I wrote it I'm like "Huh. Sounds like Touch." Hehe. But, thanks! You should, it's a very fun style to write in.
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Thank you so much!
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That is so cool! It kinda reminds me of those verses in "Touch". I love how you tied everything in like that. I'm tempted to write one of my own, using this style. How fun!
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Very interesting. Sounds almost like experience speaking... either way it is lovely.
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