Blue is...

I’ve heard it said

That blue is melancholy.

I wonder if that’s true.

Blue is trust and loyalty

Freedom and imagination

Wisdom and serenity.

Blue is the color of royalty

And Granny-sewn princess dresses.

The color of my most precious ones’ eyes,

My favorite pair of blue jeans,

Raspberry popsicles on a mid-summer afternoon,

The last color of day before night falls.

Blue is a soaring eagle’s backdrop.

Blue Boy was my first horse

And I sometimes dream of a blue merle dog.

There’s a Blue Whale, a Blue Jay, and a Blue Moon.

Blues music is soulful.

You can have the blues,

So perhaps there is a space

For blue to be melancholy after all.