Inspired by the colours of the flora on the Isle of Luing
I want to learn the old ways
The customs and the skills
I want to go and gather
The colours from the hills
I want to make a sunset
With purple from the heather
I want to weave a cloth of gold
To protect me from the weather
I want to take the earth tones
The colours from the trees
I want to make a mantle
To protect me from the breeze
I want to work with natures colours
And make things so much brighter
I want to go and walk the hills
And make the white clouds whiter
I want to take a storm cloud
To capture shades of grey
I want to take the sunlight
And turn the night to day
I want to sprinkle starlight
Into a flowing stream
I want to sing a rainbow
In a multi coloured dream
I want go and bathe my face
In the first May morning dew
I want to gather raindrops
And paint a dark sky blue
I want to take nature’s palette
And scatter it far and wide
I want to take my world
And colour it with pride
