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"Norma's Color's"
HERE ONE DAY, AND GONE THE NEXT..
NOT KNOWING HOW LONG SHE HAD TO STAY..
THIS ANGEL WALKED UPON OUR EARTH
UNTIL GOD TOOK HER AWAY


I ONCE KNEW NORMA JEAN....
A PATCHWORK QUILT SHE MADE
SHE PUT PIECES OF HERSELF IN IT
AND WITH EACH LOVING STITCH,
SHE PRAYED..


EACH COLOR OF THE PATCHES
MARKED A YEAR THAT SHE HAD TREASURED
RED WAS FOR HER FIRST DATE
A GENTLEMAN WITHOUT MEASURE


LATER ON, PINK WAS STITCHED
FOR LOVE THAT BLOOMED
BUT NEVER FIT
AND GREEN WAS FOR HER FEELINGS
WHEN HE LEFT HER FOR ANOTHER
AND BLUE, HER MOODS,
WHEN SHE COULD GO ON NO FURTHER..


NOW, WHITE WAS FOR HER WEDDING GOWN
PURPLE WAS THE COLOR OF HER FROWN..
HE MADE HER FEEL SHE WASN'T RIGHT
NOW..BLACK..FOR WHEN SHE LEFT, THAT NIGHT


WELL... SHE'S IN HEAVEN NOW
WITH NO MORE FURROWS IN HER BROW
SHE KNEW WHAT SHE HAD LEFT BEHIND
AND SHE CHOSE A BETTER WAY TO SHINE...



written about Norma Jean Baker, also known as Marilyn Monroe..song is "Candle In The Wind" by Elton John one of my favorite composers.Elton writes such profound songs..Along with Bernie Taupin..

I have wanted to do this page for a long time,but the words to my poem just came to me now.
written by Susan Jane Kahon
January 12 2001 6:34pm
"CANDLE IN THE WIND" BY ELTON JOHN
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