My Third Grade Teacher Taught that Blue & Brown Don’t Go Together Well

 My Third Grade Teacher Taught that Blue & Brown Don’t Go Together Well

I would make blue orbs to look at you,

Blue orbs of crystal or of clearer cool.

My own blue fronted orbs, each iris blue

For looking for perfection, for the jewel

Perfection of your browner beauty, could

Reveal like sapphire balls and hope to see

My future in a browness like a wood

Enchanted by your warmer browness, free

Of coldness made of iceberg.     I would find

In darknesses of hairs and warmer tans

A meaning for my wandering heart, so blind

Until it traced in you fate’s clearest plans.

..When blues and brownesses behold and meet

….Each other, we’ll hope for certainty’s heat.