By Julie

Purple is royal. A pure royal color. Like the sofa in a room fit for a king, or comfy cushions in a cartoon genie’s lamp. Like a fuzzy hairball character from another planet. Purple is strange, graceful, and regal.
Purple looks deep and bright, a luscious blend of red and blue thrown carefully together into a smoothie of purple. Like the bright electric “Pop-up Purple” in the “Rock ‘n Pop Swirl” ice cream from Baskin Robins. The soft, soothing purple in a lilac bush. Or the in-between sight of a normal pansy in a flowerpot.
Purple sounds like a beautiful two-syllable word. Pur-ple. Pur-ple. Say it out loud. Pur-ple. As clashing and majestic as can be, but something a mere pig might “Oink!” or an old donkey might bray. A combonation of something and nothing. Mild as a spring day on a field full of lambs. Purple is a rythemic word, too. Pur-ple, pur-ple pur-ple.
Purple feels warm and fuzzy like a shaggy old rug. Rougher patches, and places that seemed to have never been touched by human hands. Wild parts fraying and tangling, but softer ones, perfect to sink your feet into. Like skipping through a field so covered with flowers, you can scarcely see the grass. Breezes and petals tickling your ankles.
Purple smells like fresh flowers and a tickling scent of raspberry weaving its way in. Like freshly cut grass, just run over by the lawnmower. Like tea bags right before you’re going to put them in your tea. Even a tiny pinch of both salt and pepper. Purple smells like the humid air of the rainforest, but still the share of dry, thirsty grasslands.
Purple tastes like fruit salad, loaded with grapes and topped with whipped cream and jelly crashing against your tounge. Sweet and sour. A wonderful taste stopping to rest on your tounge. Like grapes right off of the vine, or a raspberry cobbler right out of the oven. It reminds you of a fresh salad or a hot cake. Purple is a vegetarian color, I think.
Purple. What a fresh, royal word. It reminds you of indigo butterflies and birds sailing above your head. Velvet, too. So regal, but then again, so new, fresh, graceful, bouncy, free.