( verses )

i love it violet

what about you

love it when the entire spread of northern lights

is captured in a single bead

of alaska morning dew

love it violet

with a grand kid or two

plenty warm to be outside still temps dipped enough

to let the polar bears out to frolic

at the saint lewis zoo

i love it lavender

a certain way it illiterates when it leaps from the poet's tongue

whether you see it, smell it or speak it

brings a joy to even our

unsighted and non hearing ones

love it lavender

love it like a sister loves you

may have raised your voice a couple times in her direction

still her lavender never fails to shine on through

( chorus )

love a folk song

fresh off the vine

states it's case nods...

then mosey's on down the line

love a human being

we all just one same race

love 'em brown and white black and red

or any shade of olive

love 'em face to face

( verses )

love it when it's easy

love it when it's rough and hurts like hell

every ringing bell in the valley or off any rocky mountain

remember them sounding

then every surrounding touch and smell

i tolerate violet

against spattered dabs of burnt umber

when working on my sad abstract

titled the one that got away six years ago to honolulu in the thunder

phone rings...

seems while unpacking back home...

she found your crinkled number

love it violet

love it joni blue

if you thought you were all alone

love it victory violet when your best friend

preesents to you his walking leash so into this great twirl of a world...

both smiling...

yea buddy both smiling as you roam

( bridge )

love it any way ya got

love it long as you can

love the memory of your favorite friend

as his dad pulls away in the moving van

( repeat chorus )