color-blind
you run black hills
with the strength of five thousand
orange-lipped sunsets
pounding smoke and dropping rivulets
of pink man blood sweat
but never
tears
everything about you is saturated
ruby rum lips and fiery opinion
erupting in long lava sentences
melting holes in paisley promise
as if you can boil a prism down
to the last grey nugget of truth
but violet vapors and emerald emission
always manage to escape
floating up and out behind you
in a clown-cloud of blush and burnt umber
just a touch of ochre ozone
burns my nostrils as you pass
waving daffodil hellos and
jaded celadon goodbyes
and you wink your sea glass eye
just to prove
with opal portent
that you see
only
black and white
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Linking in today over at dVersePoets for a color festival with Poetics, join us!
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March 25th, 2014 at 10:19 am
orange lipped sunsets….smiles…nice contrast to black as well..nice imagery on the fiery opinions erupting like a volcano…the ochre ozone burning your nostrils as they pass…very nice use of color, not just in description but in adding mood…
happy tuesday…smiles.
March 25th, 2014 at 3:02 pm
love the orange-lipped sunsets and the sea glass eye… but my very fav are the saturated
ruby rum lips…. so delicious
March 25th, 2014 at 3:13 pm
Amazing poem, which comes full circle, I think. The first stanzas are filled with color, and in the last stanza the reader finds that one sees, despite all the colors, only in black and white.
March 25th, 2014 at 3:23 pm
A solemn end … to only see the black-and-white… all to common.. so much better with daffodil hellos… color lends itself to the most beautiful poetry.. and you’ve mastered it.
March 25th, 2014 at 3:38 pm
You nailed me with the first stanza; powerful /you run the black hills/with the strength of 5000/orange-lipped sunsets/ Wow, a grand rendition & take on the Holi color festival prompt; bless the cones within our retina, so that even in winter we still color our world.
March 25th, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Great phrases in this poem: long lava sentences as an example. Very nice.
March 25th, 2014 at 4:20 pm
Potent and gorgeously realized, it’s so wonderful to peek into your world. You’re clearly open to all the marvelous nuance of color in it. Thanks so much for your visit. I’m on spring break from my psychology classes and happy to be visiting all the lovely people at dVerse.
March 25th, 2014 at 5:17 pm
Sumptious colors – ruby rum lips, orange lipped sunset ~ i love the contrast to the black & white view ~ Beautiful K~
March 25th, 2014 at 5:22 pm
I love to read aloud; it’s just the way I read, and in this poem, as in most of your other words, I can feel my eyes smile, as I move through the lines.
March 25th, 2014 at 5:48 pm
A colorful person who is color-blind. Your poem makes me realize how sad it must be to be color-blind and not be able to appreciate the beauties of nature in quite the same way.
March 25th, 2014 at 6:04 pm
I find this intriguing, and the contrast between all those colours and the negativity of black and white at the end is very strong.
March 25th, 2014 at 6:11 pm
Wow, I think I’ in love with the powerful and beautiful complexities of character you painted here.
March 25th, 2014 at 6:27 pm
fantastic..so many lines i could quote here..just love this poem!
March 25th, 2014 at 8:01 pm
Such great use of colors – but I really loved the close. You brought it to the perfect note.
March 25th, 2014 at 8:02 pm
All the vibrant color of life surrounding us, yet sometimes people only want to see black and white. Beautiful work!
March 25th, 2014 at 10:26 pm
Everything saturated with color–even the scent of his body passing–and it is a secret, this underlayer of excitement. Wink.
March 26th, 2014 at 8:49 am
To see such color in a person who, in turn, sees only black and white–such a loss for both.
March 26th, 2014 at 10:04 am
what a surprise at the end for the reader
March 26th, 2014 at 10:35 pm
Regrettable for one to view the multiplicity of color’s hues & chromas as black & white…
March 27th, 2014 at 8:37 am
Love the orange-lipped sunsets…beautiful words.