[Moodpoems: Calendar of Correlatives]
Since happy colors ought to fly,
she chose three bright balloons:
mint and lemon and tulip-red,
her bedpost-stringed festoons.
As happy wings glowed in dreams
the balloons exhaled three ayes:
mint and lemon and tulip red
vaulting butterflies.
William F Dougherty
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/metamorphosis-71/
