General Poetry posted October 19, 2019


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Purple, places and people in the history books

Purple is history

by JLR

So, be you ready or not, let us go fast, in a jiffy!
My list, a mix of history, purples did produce.
I am starting with the Royalty, who had a passion and did ration the color purple.
Those were the stodgie and eminent body that controlled
the commerce, to limit these colors purple, to just a handful of sovereigns.
Imperial Purple, Sovereign Purple, Royal Purple, Eminence and Purple Mountain Majesty.

I could not fail to write into and display
the purple elite that the Military chooses to keep,
The Pomp and Power purples:
Pearly Purple, Deep Ruby, Amethyst, and Purple Heart.

As we go along with the story of purple being told
We must remember those crucial people in Old Roman.
There the next shades of purple laid claim to the titled lands
upon which major battles were waged, a Byzantine, Byzantium,
Dark Byzantium, Palatinate Purple and in the setting sun
with grape fields galore, Deep Tuscan

I could go onto more colors of purple but alas,
I do not wish to bore...



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Within the color wheel the mix of blue and red, with added spices of white, black and yellow produce over 50 shades of purple.
History is a great starting place to understand the importance of the names attached to the 50 various shades of purple. Not included in this would be the natural world and fruits world that also contribute to this weel appreciated color who some would call violet, to the French aubergine.

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