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September 27, 2023

La Vie en Purple

By Irene Fowler

"I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe." - Alice Walker

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"Lavender, sweet blooming lavender, full of blossoms and dreams." - Miranda Gray

"Lavender is the ultimate symbol of beauty and grace." - Unknown

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From vibrant, enchanting, shades of purple hue

To delicate violet and sapphire blue

Symbols of grace, beauty and royalty

Whispering love, devotion and fealty

Earth's purple lavender canopy

Portends peace, amid the world's brutal chaos and anarchy

Chancely, a purple lens colours life's burdens, enigmas, and endlessly clashing refrains

Scripted by Alice Walker's purple-inked pen, dipped in society's ills and disdain

Seen through Jimi Hendrix's purple haze dreams, angst, and pain

And heard in Prince's prophetic, dire, judgement day's purple rain

Meadows of brilliant, pale-purple, mauve petaled feathery spikes

Magical places for tots and tykes

Spectacular, lavender-crowned wonderlands

An earthly paradise for romantics, of all ages, styles, and strands

Fragrant lavender oil blossoms, an eternal and blessed sensory delight

Upstaging, aromatic tuberose, magnolia, jasmine and queen-of-the-night

Purple lavender denoting in the present and the hereafter, sweet serenity and calm

Besutifying wreaths, candles, potpourri, lemonade, teas, soaps and balms

Warm, woodsy-mint perfume, seduces honeybees and butterflies breezily

And gifts to all, purple pride, power and pizzazz so freely

Starlings, artichokes, lionfish, tulips, sea-snails, coral, beetles, amethysts and pansies

La vie en purple; nature's unique tokens of beauty and glory

Albeit, lavender forever plays the starring role, of this splendid stellar story.

2023 by Irene Fowler

(Article changed on Sep 29, 2023 at 10:23 AM EDT)



Authors Bio:

Nigerian International lawyer (LL.M Harvard),based in Lagos, Nigeria. My career spans the United Nations Geneva, Switzerland (World Health Organization, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), Nigerian energy sector(Shell Petroleum, Conoco), Human/Women's Rights and Education (secondary/tertiary). I am an opinion writer for the Guardian Nigeria. My work has also appeared in The Hill, Washington DC, Kyiv Post, Ukraine, Women in leadership, London, UK and European Network against Racism, Brussels, Belgium.


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