Celeste forlorn-mated with Bondi blue
sits sadly dreaming of darling cyan -
her Cambridge, her turquoise-cerulean -
royal in hue and tinctoria*-true.

Tumbling sand mingling with washing marine,
neither sky nor grass, some might suggest teal,
others pale sky dawn once rose has fled field
leaving sunshine-blue-leviathan green.

Long and low in wavelength and frequency*;
Buddha heals* with light - Lapis Lazuli;
truest of hopes; twilight's epiphany;

faded celebration of Morning Glory -
tracery delicate as Tiffany*,
robin's egg delicate polyphony.


* The Cambridge University official colour style guide defines Cambridge Blue as Pantone 557
* tentoria = Latin for dyed
* Blues with a lower frequency and a longer wavelength gradually appear more green.
* "Medicine Master and King of Lapis Lazuli Light" is the buddha of healing and medicine in Mah?y?na Buddhism.
* Tiffany Blue is the colloquial name for the light medium robin egg blue color associated with Tiffany & Co., the New York City jewelry company.