Thinking in Color
The
poem’s name coming
Pulled
from the ether
From
my memory.
Awake
to these senses
Alive
in this moment of time
Captured,
remembering
A
touchstone, an image
Forever
burned in my mind.
Apricot
and periwinkle,
Robin’s
egg and salmon skin.
Moments,
seconds really,
Flickering
before me
Of
yesterday’s sunset
Fading,
dying, yet
Frozen
in my mind
Captured
forever
To
recall years later.
No
Nikon or Kodak,
No
disposable or instamatic.
Images
captured on
Rods
and cones this time,
Not
on emulsion.
Fine
grained, the pixels,
Absorbed
within, deeply,
And
enduring, connecting,
Synapses
growing.
Soft
shadows
Muted
edges, eye-shadow,
And
wispy gossamer clouds.
Bands
of color and mood
Share
the sky above
The
still air the canvas
With
small birds
And
a damselfly,
Before
the dark.
Stars
create a canopy
The
shape of the dome
Above
the dark landscape
After
the light fails
Before
me over the water.
The
sunset now
A
part of my memory.
My
experience, my life
To
cherish forever.
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edited May 5, 2018
Apricot and Periwinkle – v5
(editing version 4, adding 1st stanza)
edited September 28, 2017
Apricot and Periwinkle – v4
edited January 18, 2016
Apricot and Periwinkle – v3
(merging edits to version 2 and original)
edited June 21, 2014
Apricot and Periwinkle – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/apricot-and-periwinkle-v2.html
Written 8/28/00 at 10:20 at night
Written 8/28/00 at 10:20 at night
Apricot and Periwinkle
Written 8/28/00 at 10:20 at night
Swain’s Lake, Barrington, NH
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