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Vermillion ways to look at you,
Between each purest book-end hue
Of a spectrum rich with ways to see,
Yet none of them enough for me;
Shall I take the sanguine red
That pounds its flux within your head?
Or perhaps bright days of tangerine,
That burn you with a gentler sheen?
What of those hornet-coloured times
When thunder smirks behind your eyes?
Or days less lemon, and more lime
That seep out from your jungle mind?
Of course there’s that mist-speckled sage
For a wisdom that surpasses age;
And we dance on jaded verdigris
For those days when you’re as old as me;
Turquoise when your celestial heart,
Soaring, spears the skies a