My mind is blank and all the colors mingle into this last one of all, but it too deserves a name. I have spoken.

A glisten in the morning sun catches my eye. I stoop to pick up the lost jewel, only to find an ugly beetle. It was beautiful for just a moment.

the wind whips up the salty air, and pinks my cheeks

the gauge flickers, dancing around the E, but I try to ignore it, willing my chariot on to the next petrol station, and the next, and the next. One more and I will stop - really I will, just got to make it over the hill ...

And now we are networked - this blue cable snaking round the walls, joining us as one. Freedom of information - so why do i feel a need to keep something secret, passworded? I must be guilty somehow

About his own business, he is not aware of my silent watching. Wrapped up in himself, I guess it is time for a change. Soon, I will no longer see him, and though I will wait, I think his emergence will be a secret.

He felt himself slipping away, could barely make out her familiar face peering at him as he lay on the green. All his life he'd played golf, remembering the miles of green under his feet. And now his feet were going to be underneath the green. With his last breath he cursed marjorie for getting a hole-in-one. If only she hadn't jubilantly thrown her club in his direction ...

Buzzzzz. Damn is it 6am already? Just another 5 minutes ... I watch the color of the sky and know if it gets any lighter than this I'll be late for work ... again

today, broody clouds were gathering along the ridge of my mountain. I looked up to see them form a perfect horse and rider, galloping into the evening sky. It was something special.

Edward's morning always began with a fresh brew of his personal mocha blend, carefully poured into his personal china cup. A pleasurable experience, he savoured the moment, tilting the perculated potion towards his lips. Suddenly his eye caught a smear of lipstick around the rim. Someone else had used his cup! The moment spoiled, he flung the innocent liquid away, turning to seek out the shameless perpetrator of this illegal deed.

old bench in the park - pick at the cracked and peeling enamel, scarred with lovers' initials and little boys' furtive swearings

fast food
there is no time to infuse it with flavour or care
gone in a gobble

i felt myself melting as the acid from her tongue washed over me. now i know why she is so hardened. otherwise she would self corrode.

a microcosm at the fingertips. poke and prod. run little crab, run!

swimming pool? green
chlorine? nup
splash? me
screaming? me
panic? me
shower? me
eeuggh? yup

heavy breathing on the other end of the phone. he purges his obscenities into my life. I don't want them. I end his transmission. CLICK!

poor chip
had a bad day
lost his marbles
the other kids just laughed

he couldn't hold back his queasiness any longer, trying to make it to the bucket on time. He failed ...

My daughter is now allowed to write with a pen instead of a pencil at school. She is very excited and gets to wear a learner's permit. At least she doesn't have to deal with inkpots and blotting paper and smudgy blobs across the page like I did ...

sickly sweet birthday card greetings

shallow
there is no depth
you can only paddle

an evil beast lives within us all, some tame it and others let it roam only to have it devour them

warm breath escaping into the frosty morning

"Much too frivolous", thought the undertaker. But Muriel knew it was Jack's favorite color, and that he would be happy on the mantlepiece in his jar of jade.

eight ball in the corner pocket

Someone I once worked with. He bought a new suit every 3 months, which he then wore every day (and slept in it i bet). You could tell by looking at it what he'd had for breakfast.

I often feel that my interior is mossy - i need to take a good look at myself and scrape it away so that i can see the real me. selfishness, self-pity, brooding, unconfidence. The fungus of the soul.

I asked my colleague what was that delicious smell emanating from his lunch bowl. "little fishes" he said. I stepped closer to take a look. "oh, and octopus", he added. I stepped away, realising that my sense of smell had played another of it's dirty tricks ...

The expensive kind you only get on birthdays

it bites!

My brother told me something horrible lived under my bed at night. I was once brave enough to look, and terrified, saw a pair of green eyes looking back at me. Of course, it was only the cat, but even now I don't let my toes dangle over the edge of the bed ... just in case.

a popular color in australia today "heritage green please". Remembrance of times past. But what did the originators call it? "modern green"? "new green"? "new century green"?

Lustfully we admired an art deco drinks trolley belonging to friends. They broke it's opaque green glass and threw it out. We stole it from their trash and now hide the crack under a stack of 40's magazines. Now we gloat in private.

not one to hide in the background

I asked the builder to match some tiles with periwinkle blue paint - I even gave him the paintpot. This is the color he brought home ...

good job
money in my pocket
nice house
someone to come home to
a child to love
happy with myself

ah, there it is, my lunchbox. I've been looking for it everywhere, for ages. There seems to be something inside - open it up. OH MY STARS!! Eughhhhh

The fake riband glued around a product to make us think it has been royally appreciated. Kings and Queens can have bad taste too you know ...

My daughter wondered where the southern cross was - I showed her in the night sky, telling that it is only visible in the southern hemisphere, explaining mysterious longitudes and latitudes, and mentioning the invisible line that divides the earth "oh yes" she said,"I know that - the radiator" ...

Miles whisk by as I hum along to the radio. Check the speed - ah, a little fast, step off that accelerator. Ohmigosh! Was that a radar? There was no guilty flash but now I will worry until I'm sure the mail will bring me no evil ticket of doom ...

Travelling for hours. Turn into your street. All is quiet , only the streetlight glow and a hazy moon behind the clouds. Fumble with keys. Open the door. Home.

a difficult color to look at for any length of time - you start to see strange things within its depth

such luxury! champagne, nibbly things, attended to at every moment ..sorry? what's that - oh I'm supposed to be in economy? I see ...

this color is not pleasant. It makes me think of bathroom cleansers - scrubbing, grittiness and damn hard work removing the ring that humanity leaves behind - the dirt of other people that you bring home.

medical rooms
hospitals - the colors are antiseptic. They should be trying to put life back into you instead of trying to sap it away

relax
adjust your suit
look at your nails
glance at the secretary
relax
pretend to read the business magazine on the coffee table
you see a run in your stocking
as you rise to greet the interviewer
an unreal piece of your life

I told him all my secrets. I heard him laughing as he tossed them to the wind ...

Miranda teetered on her high heels, trying to catch up with her fancy-dress friends. She cursed herself for hastily adding that pineapple to her Carmen Miranda costume ...

whizzing along with no effort, feet off the ground
- one of those perfect, uncommon days when you can do no wrong

Coexistence cannot succeed without love and hate in balance

The beautiful jewellery of the American Indians

fish high society

a covering on very old things - actually that sounds like my granny's cardigan ...

How many coins did I throw into that wishing well, desperate for a pony? Countless. Did it work? I got a horse when I was 21. I had to wait a long time , but yes, it worked. Some fairy made a fortune along the way though ...

I stared at them across the table. Just like I'd stared at them all afternoon. They were trying to break me, but there was no way they'd make me eat my greens ...

an irish childhood - so many good memories. I love green!

the ice glistens in the neon streetlight glow as we slide on our feet from the top of the hill - it feels so scrumptiously wicked to be out so late on a school night, even though we know mothers watch thru veiled curtains

that deliciously scary feeling in the air just before an almighty storm is about to break loose.

I used to help my brother paint his model ships, 'cept I got bored following the instructions to paint everything "gunmetal grey". I did one of his prize cruisers in bright pink. He retaliated by painting my Cowboy Joe doll 's head bright green. War was declared shortly afterwards.

I wish there were traffic lights for every day decisions. STOP!, GET READY! and GO! would be most useful.

sometimes life is like mud wrestling. You never get anywhere and you end up covered in slime. Of course, you don't look quite as stoopid ...

that young bud, thinks he knows everything.He ain't faced the caterpillar brothers or the Hole in the Leaf gang yet. Gotta learn tham youngsters ...

she stood under the street light, attracting them like flies. Actually, they were flies and she was a fly-eating spider ... she knew how to live well that flo

it should be bright like this but i think it is usually the color of misery because too much rots the spirit of giving and too little rots the anxious mind

I thought about it though ...

blue blood is supposed to denote a member of the royal family. I always thought it meant you weren't getting enough oxygen to the brain ... oh ...

sweet breath upon your lips

oh, not the ones in the sky - the neighbours up the back. They are forever leaving their outside lights on overnight ...

sliding into the water, the sun drying the slippery dip just enough to catch your swimsuit unawares. Too late!

a map of bloods journey

A wedding. The bride hiding, in tears. Rice had been thrown instead of confetti. Cooked rice. A true, but sticky ending.

brown hat, brown coat and shoes. brown hair, brown eyes, brown dog. But Mr Brown's soul was just as nondescript and so he did not think he was missing out on anything

any port in a storm

although considered a noxious weed, and also know as patterson's curse, there is nothing as glorious as a hillside covered in it's purple splendour

we are all invisibly marked at birth by the genes of our parents

If someone says they are feeling blue perhaps we should ask "what shade"? I wouldn't mind feeling blue if it was this color.

When I was little, I found an injured worm at the bottom of the garden. I wrapped it's tummy in a bandage. I watched him shuffle off ungratefully through the grass.

the color formerly known as purple

from decay comes growth

In my mind, my horse went faster than all the others

an australian tree, the oil of which is wonderfully aromatic and antiseptic

Beetroot stood in the doorway of the smoke-filled nightclub. The regular couples were all there: peaches (stoned as usual) and cream : onion and potato (crying her eyes out) : cheese, whispering in cauliflower's ear ;celery who was stalking carrot. He couldn't stand stewing over his loneliness anymore. He knew it was time to move on.

"free the radicals"

cabernet sauvignon
shiraz
burgundy
all the fancy names in the world don't change the fact that it is just 'plonk'

I bought a pair of pj's this color, thinking they were cool and different. He said I looked like I was in army fatigues ... He was right

The way kids get excited about small things in life - an instant, infectious glow

Sometimes you say too much about yourself to the wrong person and it's as if every little self-secret is lit up in a color like this - you feel like a neon sign that says "kick me".

families returning to kosovo, bodies in the local well, friends or foe?

I bought a lettuce the other day after spending ages selecting the plumpest, brightest, juiciest looking one on display. When I got it home I found a surprised, but industrious family of grubs inside. I guess someone else shared my good taste.

Grandpa Bertie had a penchant for painting everything in sight this color - sheds, swings, even the trellis that held up the sweetpea. He died many years ago but it's family joke that when we get to heaven we'll know where he's been. This cheers granny up immensely ...

after working in a million hospitals I just know this is the color of the sick bowls. I'm sorry but it's a fact

I wonder who decided detergent should be blue. If I washed my clothes in yellow would they make me feel better?

they used to paint penguin and polar bear enclosures this color supposedly to reflect their natural habitat - so NOT!

ooey gooey face masks - we make ourselves look ridiculous in order to accomplish the impossible

airhead

i've been looking at this color way too long

they used to call it the children's moon cos that was the only time they got to see it - i don't know, i think kids can stay up longer than me these days

this reminded me of someth...

parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

vivacious one minute
sour grapes the next

bless you

the kind of fabric you automatically reach out and touch

I used to like being given pretty bottles of lavender water. I just looked it up in the dictionary and it contains ambergris. I looked up ambergris and it is a secretion of the intestine of the sperm whale. I am disgusted.

Blackberry bushes used to grow in the field behind our garden. "don't eat those berries before dinner" ma used to call. Wonder how she always knew when we did?

In roman times purple was the color of the rich and famous - I think I would like to see the purple carpet rolled out for me when I am famous, and not the red

My desk friend has gone on holiday. How dare she. Out of spite I kidnapped her favorite bear, the purple cromwell, and left a ransom note. He is on my desk, blindfolded, and sits atop my intray in silent protest, serenly grinning at me.

Sometimes color is not enough. If not for it's delicious smell I doubt I would go near a passionfruit, those little seeds like evil eyes in their pod of passion

Imagine if the green berets had chosen another color - I don't think the enemy would have taken them quite so seriously ...

I wonder if we will ever receive a medal for all those times our hearts were wounded in the line of love

a day to celebrate the freedom to buy candy whenever we want

I see the old doll's pram in the trash - remembering that she played with it incessantly, remembering the cat dressed in doll's clothes and tucked up inside without a protest. Now it's wheels are gone and it seems a sacrilege

i gave away my blood once and I fainted - they gave me orange juice. I don't see it as a fair trade but i couldn't take it back

old ladies knitting up a storm of bright color - only to give away their creation to the young who wonder how to get away with not wearing it in public without offending grandma

The teacher scribbles on my childs homework and may as well be scratching out her eyes. It hurts to see her disappointment

Some colors are as offensive as verbal abuse

Unwritten law of the universe #356 : the brightness of your lipstick should decrease in proportion to your age

an unpaid bill
'the wife was meant to pay it'
'the cheque is in the mail'
'my bank made a mistake'
'i'm sorry - i spent the money on something else'

We think we are generous when we give away our old clothes to the poor. When we see them in the street we wonder how come they dress so badly.

Woman in a red dress
Emergency
Accident waiting to happen

My mother gave my daughter a disgustingly putrid pink scarf and hat. But you know, when my daughter is out in the snow with a hundred other kids I can always find her ...

A child will never spill something neutral on the carpet - it is always the brightest most stubbornly colored substance known to mankind

We ache for some things so badly we make them happen. And then wonder why they taste sour so quickly.

Ken lay awake at night, dreading the day when he and Barbie were married - there was no escaping that pink ...

whenever you go to buy anything on special only the really revolting shades are left

It is always painted as red, but only we know the hidden darkness of our own heart

Drag queens seem to revel in color - is it to shock or to stand out in the crowd of other drag queens - each as bright as the other?

Such a warm a familiar color on a cold winter day. A bowl of soup, a fresh bread roll. The stuff of life.

I drank a little too much whiskey yesterday. I laughed at someone I shouldn't have. I made him cry. I told him he could laugh at me and he did. I regret it.

They always make sticking plasters an unobtrusive shade to blend with our skin - don't they realise we want EVERYONE to know when we are hurt?

a treasured possession - my old woolly pink elephant. He was accidentally thrown into the fire when he was 3. When he was 10, my brother pulled his ear off. We never found it. When he was 15, my mother ripped him up for stuffing. I rescued him. Now my daughter cuddles him at night. He does not speak to me anymore.

a disease of humanity, we can't be happy for others without that little yellow glow of envy clouding our eyes

sometimes we leave things until it's too late

Everyone reaches for the Calamine lotion when they land in poison ivy - wouldn't be so keen if you were told to grab the zinc and ferric oxide now would you?

Miss Piggy never told Kermit, but she thought he clashed terribly with pink

Carlotta liked to order 'Campari and Champagne'. It made her feel special even though she knew she was very ordinary.

I once painted a favorite pair of shoes this color to match an outfit I wore to a wedding. I never wore those shoes again because I was too lazy to paint them back. I gave them to my granny but they did not fit. She gave them to a very old lady who died. I know not where those shoes are now. I hope they have forgiven me ...

Sam and Maude thought they'd gotten away with the perfect murder. Too bad her husband had scratched her skin as he took his last breath ...

one of those electric bug zappers - the glowing neon attracting the criminals of the bug world - bugsy malone, bonny and clawed, they never saw it coming, the mugs ...

The lemons seem to get much more publicity than us limes - LEMON cheesecake, LEMONade, LEMON chicken ... who do they think they are? The citrus kings or something?

the cheery color of my new dinner set. EVERYTHING looks good to eat when served up on it!

the grass is always greener on the other side but it's brightness stops you from seeing the snakes

melancholic
heavy hearted
self

There is a place called Violet Town, the name of which attracted me so much I wanted to go there ... but then someone told me it wasn't a very nice place at all. Spoilsport.

red wine seems to vindictively aim itself at the front of your new white shirt no matter what precautions you take

Without speaking I get your attention

my ma, bless her, loves knick knacks - every birthday she sends me a new one. Me - I despise a thing that has no purpose in life, just as when I was young I hated dolls - give me a train set or a bow and arrow anytime. Now they are presents that inspire you to be creative - course they got me in trouble too ...

from the italian 'capuchin' - a franciscan friar of the new rule of 1529. Hmmm, what were they doing with coffee machines? A secret order perhaps ...

algae floating on water, disgustingly glorious in green

protected from the weather in plastic macs, how come there's always one, cold little drip that gets down the back of your neck?

yuppies
mobile phones
bmw
get a life

my pc has this huge, big blue power button just this color - no kidding it's 30 centimetres high, 20 cm wide. Did they think I might miss it ???

ringworm shows up under ultra violet light - at the vet clinic we would huddle in the dark room with a frightened moggy searching for this 'after dark' fungus only to see it glowing back at us ... or was that just the cat's eyes?

such fun - why do we stop playing mini golf at a certain age as though it was beneath us. Well, the fake grass is beneath us but's that about all ...

My laundry had a hideous wallpaper - blue/yellow/red flowers. I stripped it away to find ... more hideousness underneath - gigantic red an blue psychedelic swirls. I painted it this color and butter yellow ... it rests in peace now ...

I'm not as bright as all the other oranges, I don't fit in with the pinks ... maybe someone will see me for myself ...

A spice that relies on it's color to make you feel adventurous in using it - otherwise it doesn't do much

refined
grown up
serious

Tis not a year or two shows us a man
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full
They belch us. (Othello)

my favorite color for roses - but who can afford them?

chocolate and fluffy
yummy yummy yum
m.o.u.s.s.e

give a man a uniform and the power goes straight to his head .... even if he's only a roadworker with a safety vest holding the 'go slow' sign

tongues can't keep secrets - in more ways than one.

I scraped mine
they put iodine on it
it looked disgusting

teddy boy coats
satin bobby soxer skirts
young elvis
rebels without a pause

Ever lie at the bottom of the pool and look up at the sky. It's color changes the deeper you go. You also get water up your nose ...

That fake grass stuff they use in supermarkets between the fruit and vegetables to make it look 'fresh'. It's a lie.

Grandpa Bertie loved this red colored concrete stuff ... one day he decided to rip up the floor boards and pour it into the gaping hole. Trouble was, in the meantime he forgot to tell Granny the floor was no longer there ... oops!

Avocados scared me until I closed my eyes and ate one. Now they're scared of me ...

Mimi's eyeshadow

a special childhood place where the grownups where not invited

all colors stick to me ... I suck them up and devour them whole (evil cackle ....)

tart

My favourite shoes
getting old and worn
can't find a pair the same color
8-(

Spread thickly on buttered toast for late night supper

hellfighter

Fizzy in your mouth, you eat way too many, and the acid stings your tongue

beware - I'm dangerous!

Our ponies considered unripe almonds - soft fuzzy and green - a special treat. We used to steal them from next door's garden

Robin Hood
Robin Hood
Riding thru the Glen

70's party
velour
bee gees
night fever
that song went on for ten mintues I swear

a clean sheet
- make your bed and lie in it

Fridge mould is different to ordinary mould. It appears suddenly, aggressively taking over that tomato you swear was perfectly fine yesterday

bits of playdough stuck in my carpet or men in racing speedos? - why not both

an australian saying meaning ' the real thing"

My boss used to buy buns for morning tea - the ones with a mile high frosting of sticky gooey icing

don't you hate it when the water is juuuuussst that much higher than the top of your gumboots?

patent handbags
70's nail polish
aunt nancy's tea cosy
hand painted VW beetles
(don't bring them back)

don't show your ignorance! Use this color wisely

Ever seen one in daylight? Euuughhhhh!

Bridesmaids have to buy shoes to match their dresses - both of which they will never EVER wear again

I once made a puffy shirt this color . What makes it worse? - I wore it ...

touch me, feed me, love me
but don't leave me out in the rain

hug me

Sometimes you're not sure what I am, but you take a bite anyway

jump right in - the water's fine!

I do my job when required but you can't have too much of me or I make you SICK

I hang about on street corners at night, I watch you and you watch me - but you pretend to look the other way ...

i'm meek
I'm mild
I'm mix well
with colors wild

some reds are too red,
others too pink
without me to help you
your pages would stink!

I can be prickly if you don't treat me right ...

You might think I'm too much of a show off, but I'm groovy for text on black backgrounds

I might just pass you by if you don't stop to look closely

Out of the ordinary,
match me with something unusual

a natty fellow, rich and talented