Hunter Green

Preamble - whilst reflecting on all things green (my favourite colour), from politics to energy production, I looked up the HTML code and name of the particular colour green I favoured. It was called Hunter Green, and it just so happens that there are many businesses featuring this name in my area. So, I factored them into my thoughts and the poem that resulted.

 

Shades of Hunter Green

Yesterday I felt that I was Hunter Green,

a most deep and meaningful shade

a solid definition of my current state of mind

my values and feelings towards this earth

and the troubles that we humans have

continually visited upon our solar satellite.

Today I will paint the terrain of Sunshine,

not literally as an artist of course

but as a Hunter Green landscaper

delivering Lake Macquarie residents with

eco balanced domestic vistas and native trees

that will help this earth continue to breathe and survive.

Tomorrow I will undertake equities research

as a Hunter Green institutional broker

delivering quality analysis to corporate investors

for whom I will also produce astounding

commentary on topical investment themes

for our monthly Cane Toad (electronic) magazine.

Next week I will start to construct my Hunter Green

sustainable home using recycled, local,

durable and non off gassing materials to reduce

waste, pollution and environmental degradation,

and match them with efficient energy and water systems

all using natural resources for both heating and light.

Next month on e-bay I will sell all manner of goods,

in that most attractive shade of Hunter Green,

from jewellery featuring nature’s rare stones

such as malachite, tourmaline and verdite

to appealing high healed dyed leather pumps

geared to those discerning buyers of fashion and style.

Then I will start to plan how I can spend my final years

of life in the Hunter Green Retirement Village

where I will reminisce on lost opportunities past

to give something back to this fragile earth

and trust there are still committed younger souls

to prolong and permeate the essence of feeling Hunter Green.