Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Poem #9-2012 Colored Things

Ribbons
Rainbows
Flags
Sunsets

Color is light –
made, lost, or moved
Black is coldest
Then red, orange, yellow-white, bluish-white

Yarn
Hair
Bowling balls
Flowers

Stripped to its essence,
color is perception
Wielded by the artist,
color is passion

Birthday candles
Backpacks
Construction paper
Socks

Taken for granted,
color retreats
Seen through bias,
color condemns

Songbirds
Sunday comics
Traffic lights
Crayons

If music is what feelings sound like, then
color is what music looks like
Don’t just see the colors –
Hear them




Contributed to dVersePoets.com
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2 comments:

  1. really tight last stanza there....color is what music looks like, thus what feelings look like...and we do carry certain bias to color as well...

    Taken for granted,
    color retreats
    Seen through bias,
    color condemns

    true that man...nice write....

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  2. Really interesting exposition here. Well done. k.

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