Color Me Refractory! by Roy G. Biv

     To those insisting they know words designating colors 

but lacking any rhymes, guest poetaster Biv says, "Nonsense!"

Larry has a little lamb. Indeed, he has a chilver.

As send up of the Mask'd Man's horse, he calls his chilver "Silver."

Yeasts 'n' rusts 'n' chanterelles: each fungus sports a sporange.

Some sporanges glow bowling green; rust sporanges look orange. 

Rhyming words arrive in herds when mispronounced is 'beige.'

Your 'sage' won't do, nor 'gauge' won't, too. (But note the color 'greige.'*)

     * A blend of grey and beige.

There's wedgies and there's towel snaps, the noogie and the nurple.

Each snap leaves joke butt's buttocks blue; each nurple leaves tits purple.

Among the young of Alcidae...? The puffling and the auklet.

The puffling's cock-a-doodle blue. The auklet's hue...? Milk choc'late.

A Queen of Crime is Ngaio Marsh, whose fav'rite bloom's the violet.

Don't wonder, then, at shades of walls in rooms for rent that Ngaio let.

"Open Sesame!"'s Other Options; or, Kassim's Crib Notes: an Alphabet

    Open... 

...Amaranth 

...Barley 

...Couscous 

...Durum 

...Einkorn 

...Freekah 

...Graham 

...Hominy 

...Incaberry

...Jowar 

...Kamut 

...La Lechera

...Millet 

...Nuphar 

...Orzo 

...Polenta 

...Quinoa 

...Rye  

...Sorghum 

...Teff 

...Ungernia

...Valerian

...Wheatberry 

...Xanthisma

...Yucca

...Zizania

Schoolgirls

My post's at university. My PhD I seek.
My name is Rosie Finn-Gherdaun. My subject's Attic Greek.

     (Homer's 'rhododaktulos eos' translates as 'rosy-finger'd dawn.')

English Lit's my specialty. My Shakespeare I can quote.

My name is Nora Lenderbee. I've learn'd Will's words by rote.

     (Hamlet, Act I, scene iii: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be.")