The artist steals his colors from the palette of nature:
Daisy yellow, cumulus white, sea foam blue, and new leaf green.
Congratulating himself for mixing a gritty mahogany
(tinged with the red of rain-washed clay)
he sneers and deludes himself into man’s great pretension;
That he alone creates the wonders of the world.
RED GLADIOLA 
Oh, those little delusions and fantasies that get us through…
Sometimes it works and sometimes we have to be humbled. =)
Yes, so true.