Green Is The Color

of

My Love and My Life

by Fred Chamberlain, May 16th, 1970

(Handwritten cover note - given to Linda on May 17, 1970 during brief visit to her office)

Shortly after we got together,

Linda "published" a single copy of poems

written for her by Fred

This is what part of that "book" looks like.

Note the start of the second poem,

"Green & Blue"

Someday we'll add the rest of the poems to this page!

This page  has been revised and is now dedicated

to Martine & Bina, as of March 28, 2010.

Their spirit of love seems so akin to ours,

That kindred spirits are we four, we believe,

(Taking into account only the first page of

Green and Blue, directly above!)

GREEN AND BLUE

This gift is green,

It stands for hope,

Survival, growth,

An upwards slope.

Green is Life's

Expanding ring.

From small seeds,

The giants spring.

They reach upwards

Towards the sun.

Reach the sky,

They've just begun.

Stretching fingers,

For the stars,

Grasping, bending,

Finite bars.

And Green is love,

But what is that?

What makes our world

Stop being flat?

(to be continued - for now, just a scanned image of the original, below)