What Colour Was That? – 7th May 2026

~ shaun tenzenmen

Shared with dVerse Poetics – rose. An ‘Afternoon Delight’ is a type of rose, apparently.

An afternoon delight used to be
a beer in a summer garden.
Music played through a window
with the sun hanging lazy into night.

Those tinted glasses of nostalgia
– what colour was that again?
Knowing that it may not be repeated
why continue to wish for it to be so?

As beer became a thing of the past
– a regret of wasted time,
an afternoon delight is a nap
now that the sun sets so quickly.

Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

How To Have A Good Day

I’ll give you a guarantee
If you want to have a good day
Do good things for free
And you’ll always feel this way

34 thoughts on “What Colour Was That? – 7th May 2026”

  3. as a fellow ex beer lover and drinker, I can definitely relate to this! Its been hard to find the same kind of (fake) euphoria that I used to get from drinking but doing the right thing in each moment (as the Zen Buddhists would say) has definitely improved my overall health and mental well-being! Thanks for sharing this poem great done, Shaun! 🩵

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  5. From the guzzling of beer in our youth to an afternoon nap in our later years. Yep….that’s how it goes in life :) And I’d add, the taste buds shift and become more discerning…from beer to a delightful bordeaux!

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  6. This is so evocative, yes, indeed those were the days! I too love the description; “Those tinted glasses of nostalgia.” 🌸❤️

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  12. Your poem made me feel a little sad. You’ve found poetry …no hangovers…that’s a good thing. I used to love a shandy in the summer. It goes with the weather. I still have beer and wine in my pantry cupboard but I just don’t feel like it anymore. I blame that killjoy guardian angel of mine who insists on looking after me but has to date been unable to make me sensible.:)…Rall

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  13. Love this reflective poem and especially the line What colour was that again? I do think they have colours I still love a cold dark beer in the summer :)

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    1. Thank you Marja 🙏 The weird thing is that it is always summer here in Thailand (relatively) but I just lost the taste for beer since arriving here. It could also be exposure to many of the moaning drunken foreign losers that are around the city too… Not something I aspire to!

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