Apricot and Periwinkle – v6
Thinking in Color
Capturing a moment
The poem’s title coming
Pulled from the ether
From my memory.
Awake to these senses
Alive in this moment
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 spirit
Captured forever
In my memory, my tissue,
To recall later years.
No Nikon or Kodak,
No disposable or Instamatic.
Not on emulsion
Images captured on
Rods and cones this time.
Fine grained, the pixels,
Memory planted securely
Absorbed within, deeply,
And enduring, connecting,
Synapses growing strong.
Soft shadows, blending,
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
Flitting in the sparkles
And a damselfly,
Before the dark.
Stars create a canopy
The shape of the dome
The arc of eternity
Above the dark landscape
After the light fails.
Before me over the water.
The sunset now remembered
A part of my memory.
My experience, my life
To cherish forevermore.
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edited March 21, 2021
Apricot and Periwinkle - v6
edited May 5, 2018
Apricot and Periwinkle – v5
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/05/apricot-and-periwinkle-v5.html
(editing version 4, adding 1st stanza)
edited September 28, 2017
Apricot and Periwinkle – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/09/apricot-and-periwinkle-v4.html
edited January 18, 2016
Apricot and Periwinkle – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/apricot-and-periwinkle-v3.html
(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
Apricot and Periwinkle
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/sunset-seeing-colors.html
Written 8/28/00 at 10:20 at night
Swain’s Lake, Barrington, NH
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