It’s Good for our Brains
It’s Good for our Brains
It’s good for our brains the experts proclaim,
Using big words to define
The sublime sense of ease
We feel while coloring abstract designs,
Choosing hues to amuse us,
We lose our sense of time
And the need to confine our thoughts
To worries of the day,
Bringing calm to our nerves,
Our thoughts converge
On shading, balance and color,
While other concerns fall away,
So, take time to play and color today,
You might be surprised
By the way that you feel,
And the way that you deal
With stressors the following day.
The design I colored came from the book Balance by Angie Grace.
There’s No Gold Star
THERE’S NO GOLD STAR
There’s no gold star on my artwork today,
I started with such care,
Staying inside the bold, black lines
With a calm, steady hand,
Moving the colors up and down,
Round and round, without a sound,
Smiling at the precise zones of color I created,
Separate but equal, I thought,
Don’t cross the lines and you’ll be fine,
But fine is not what I was after,
Not really, Not today, Not this way,
So I picked up the green, the red and the blue,
I followed with colors of most every hue,
I crossed every line, then crossed them again,
And did it with glee and a tilt of my chin,
And so there’s no star, not gold, red or green,
No simple reward to feed my esteem,
But who needs a star for playing it safe,
Who needs a star with so much at stake,
Who needs a star when the path that we take
Might lead to a rainbow of color.
Photo and Poem by Rita Bourland
Just Poetry and Prose 
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