Poetry Monday :: Purple for Peace

Because it's Poetry Monday today.  Diane - who has taken over the hosting of  this challenge - and Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings - who supplies us with many of the topics - are also writing wonderful, funny, thought-provoking, ingenious and honestly well written verse. Go and read them!
  Karen of Baking in a Tornado has joined us in this crazy pursuit, and promises us at least a poem a month!
  SpikesBestMate often publishes a nice verse in the comments.
  Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey who has been a faithful participant, is slowly returning to blogging after her husband's passing from this world. Let's continue to send warm thoughts, good energy, and lots of prayers her way, now her mum needs a serious prayer too. But still we dare hope that she will join Poetry Monday again.

Today I present one of my lilting verses.
Alliterations, near-rhymes.
Lilting rhytms and times.
Peruse at your pleasure!

Purple for peace? Why purple and not pink?
I'd prefer other colours. Now, please let me think:

 White for peace: Newfallen snow with no trace of blood, 
 Like a blank paper, a newly lit candle                                

Blue for peace: The ocean in moonlight, skies serene,
flowers, poetry, Our Lady's mantle.

Green for peace. All growing things, leaf and bud,
but as the frog sings: "It's not easy being green."

 But for me peace is yellow. Please let me be done:  
 A canola field glowing under the sun,                      
 pungent smell of honey, sounds of busy bees.          
 this is peace!                                                             

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Next  Monday's topic: Turtles.

NOTE: I found out about the alien connexion of Purple for peace, before publishing this post, but after writing the poem, and I found no way to include it without writing a whole new poem.