Just a bit of fun with colour. It benefits from a fast, out-loud read, if you can.How Blue Do You Do?
Incorporating every colour on the Wikipedia page Shades of Blue.
Periwinkle, manganese, cornflower, smalt,
Liberty, blue bell, savoy and cobalt.
Uranian navy, International Klein.
Picotee, baby; it’s ultramarine.
Midnight independence powders my steel.
Bluebonnet, delft, duck and teal.
Egyptian, Argentinian, Celtic and true,
Spanish, Polynesian, Honolulu.
Puerto Rican, Moroccan, French and Maya,
United Nations, Columbia, Havana.
Tufts, Berkeley, Yale and Penn,
Brandeis, Illini, Dodger and twin.
Celestial, sapphire, cerulean, vista,
Non-photo blue, Imperial, lavender.
Lavender mist, medium, lavender grey.
Rhode Island School of Design, UCLA,
Oxford, Cambridge, Palatinate, Duke,
Oh Carolina; got those Resolution Blues
Silver Lake, Picton, Indigo Alice.
Bleu de France, royal, air force, process.
Fluorescent, light, cloudy, sky, Tiffany,
Light sky, deep sky, azure, capri.
Pale azure, majorelle, cool black, cyan,
Lapis lazuli, dark, jordy and tang.
Air superiority, aero and bice;
Azul, glaucous, neon and ice.
Maximum blue-green, green-blue, Bondi.
Electric indigo, indigo dye.
Blue violet, slate, blue grey, blurple,
Medium slate, Marian, maximum blue-purple.
Byzantine, Persian, Prussian and Chrysler,
Manatee and denim, Phthalo (that’s copper).
Every shade, every tint, every wash and glow
From robin egg to space cadet, every hue.
When all other colourings fade from view,
How blue are you? How blue do you do?
Periwinkle, manganese, cornflower, smalt,
Liberty, blue bell, savoy and cobalt.
Uranian navy, International Klein.
Picotee, baby; it’s ultramarine.
Midnight independence powders my steel.
Bluebonnet, delft, duck and teal.
Egyptian, Argentinian, Celtic and true,
Spanish, Polynesian, Honolulu.
Puerto Rican, Moroccan, French and Maya,
United Nations, Columbia, Havana.
Tufts, Berkeley, Yale and Penn,
Brandeis, Illini, Dodger and twin.
Celestial, sapphire, cerulean, vista,
Non-photo blue, Imperial, lavender.
Lavender mist, medium, lavender grey.
Rhode Island School of Design, UCLA,
Oxford, Cambridge, Palatinate, Duke,
Oh Carolina; got those Resolution Blues
Silver Lake, Picton, Indigo Alice.
Bleu de France, royal, air force, process.
Fluorescent, light, cloudy, sky, Tiffany,
Light sky, deep sky, azure, capri.
Pale azure, majorelle, cool black, cyan,
Lapis lazuli, dark, jordy and tang.
Air superiority, aero and bice;
Azul, glaucous, neon and ice.
Maximum blue-green, green-blue, Bondi.
Electric indigo, indigo dye.
Blue violet, slate, blue grey, blurple,
Medium slate, Marian, maximum blue-purple.
Byzantine, Persian, Prussian and Chrysler,
Manatee and denim, Phthalo (that’s copper).
Every shade, every tint, every wash and glow
From robin egg to space cadet, every hue.
When all other colourings fade from view,
How blue are you? How blue do you do?
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