Hi I have to write an introduction for a performance on colour - it is to raise money fir the tsunami appeal and I want to create some lovely poetry links. Any ideas hugely appreciated.

Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Lee Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

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Green Fields
--Richard Dehr

Once there were green fields,
Kissed by the sun.
Once there were valleys,
Where rivers used to run.
Once there were blue skies,
With white clouds high above.
once they were part of,
An everlasting love.
We were the lovers who,
Strolled through Green Fields.

Green fields are gone now,
Parched by the sun.
Gone from the valleys,
Where rivers used to run.
Gone with the cold wind,
That swept into my heart.
Gone with the lovers,
Who let their dreams depart.

Where are the green fields,
That we used to roam?

I'll never know what,
Made you run away.
How can I keep searching
When dark clouds hide the day..

I only know there's,
Nothing here for me.
Nothing in this wide world,
Left for me to see.

Still I'll keep on waiting,
Until you return.
I'll keep on waiting,
Until the day you learn.
You can't be happy,
While your heart's on the roam,
You can't be happy
Until You bring it home.
Home to the green fields
And me once again.


Les