The Dead Good Poets online anthology of poetry by writers from and associated with Aberdeen was published in 2006/2007 with funding from Aberdeen City Council.

For more information about the literary scene in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland please see North East Writers.

Colours

Olivia McMahon

Blue is a patch of sky.
Look up, you said, remember this for ever.

Green is the green
of the mosses in the forest,
soft and luminous,
that time we thought
would be our last.

And then yellow,
cruel yellow, covering the walls,
yellow curdling inside me
as I waited for your return.

But red — the shout in the dark —
red is the colour that drives us.

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