#Apricot and #Periwinkle – v8

Seeing in color,
capturing a moment,
a poem’s title birthing,
teased from the ether,
From my memory.
 
Awake to these senses,
alive in this moment,
captured, remembering,
a touchstone, an image,
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, and yet
frozen in my spirit,
captured forever,
in my memory, my flesh,
to recall in later years.
 
No Nikon or Kodak,
no disposable or Instamatic.
not on emulsion, on film;
Images captured on
rods and cones this time.
 
Fine grained, the pixels,
memory planted securely,
absorbed within, deeply,
enduring, connecting,
synapses growing strong.
 
Soft shadows, blending,
muted edges, eye-shadow,
wispy gossamer clouds.
bands of color and mood
share the sky above.
 
The still air the canvas.
small birds dancing,
flitting in the sparkles,
And a damselfly,
before the dark.
 
Stars create a canopy,
etch shape of the dome,
The arc of eternity,
above the dark landscape,
after the light fails.
 
Before me over the water,
sunset now remembered,
part of my memory,
my experience, my life,
To cherish forevermore, always.

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Edited March 10, 2024
Apricot and Periwinkle – v8
 
edited February 10, 2022
Apricot and Periwinkle – v7
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/apricot-and-periwinkle-v7.html
edited after reading “Little Sister Pond”,
by Mary Oliver
edited March 21, 2021
Apricot and Periwinkle - v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/03/apricot-and-periwinkle-v6.html
edited May 5, 2018
Apricot and Periwinkle – v5
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/05/apricot-and-periwinkle-v5.html
(editing version 4, adding 1^st 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
&
edited February 9, 2022
onto the water – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/onto-water-v2.html
about summer 2000,
written after reading "Blossom"
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February 9, 2022
at the edge of the lake – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/at-edge-of-lake-v4.html
about summer 2000,
written after reading "Morning on Great Pond"
by Mary Oliver
edited February 8, 2022
&
January 3, 2022
A squadron of geese
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-squadron-of-geese.html
written after reading Clapp’s Brook by Mary Oliver
 
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