GREEN:AN ANALYSIS

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GREEN: AN ANALYSIS
The grass is always green with envy…
Irrespective of the verdant quality of Richard Llewellyn’s valley.
Green can mean (environmentally) clean and, also, naïve,
While the ‘green eyed monster’ indicates a jealous beast.
Eating your greens is healthy, but rarely considered a feast.
Green Park in London could be an open air venue for a Green Day concert,
Or The Green Party’s annual conference.
Green means GO in traffic lights, but Greenland isn’t really.
Little green men are clichéd aliens as well as being signals at pedestrian crossings.
The Green Goblin and the Jolly Green Giant are equally well known.
Green baize provides snooker players with a playing surface.
Bowling greens and Wimbledon have much in common.
While being ‘green around the gills’ is not an affliction of fishes;
Nor does it refer to moss deposits in a public bar’s optics.
Green can mean money including sterling,
Stirling Moss, however, was a racing driver.
Snot is green and so are some irises.
The Red and the Green is a novel by Iris Murdoch.
Green partners red in a form of colour blindness.
This does not affect how we perceive the Green Berets,
Or Greenpeace.
Greenhouses can grow the stock of a greengrocer,
As well as being an effect and gases.
It’s not ‘green’ to fly, but there are greenfly.
The Green Man is a mythic geezer,
A green card is a visa.
An asthmatic gardener is a green-fingered wheezer.
Gretna Green hosts teenage weddings.
Elizabeth the First’s teeth were reportedly green.
‘The green, green grass of home,’ is a song—
Tom Jones, not as green as he is cabbage looking, moans.
Hughie Green presented ‘Opportunity Knocks.’
Green hues in many shades colours mould,
And, sometimes, pairs of socks.