Colors

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Originally Posted by Pendragon

An orange bell... Wow!

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You're right Pen, it looks more like a bell than a cone but I tried. Like Granny says, it's one of those wet floor pylons. :(

A color of rich, "earthy" beauty, oft neglected in poesy.
The piece would be characterized as "sensuous" (adj. often applied to the poetry of Keats.) Note that it's "sensuous" not "sensual"-- the two words are not synonomous.
Incidentally, I don't know how chilly it is in your neck of the woods, but Global Warming, Global Schmarming-- it gets pretty darn cold round here in the Fall. Too damn cold to be sitting nekkid across the room. I kid, I kid.

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Originally Posted by AuntShecky

A color of rich, "earthy" beauty, oft neglected in poesy.
The piece would be characterized as "sensuous" (adj. often applied to the poetry of Keats.) Note that it's "sensuous" not "sensual"-- the two words are not synonomous.
Incidentally, I don't know how chilly it is in your neck of the woods, but Global Warming, Global Schmarming-- it gets pretty darn cold round here in the Fall. Too damn cold to be sitting nekkid across the room. I kid, I kid.

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Oh...you're talking about Brown. We have had an unusually warm autumn but the wind is blowing and the temps are dropping as I write this. You're a good kidder Auntie. :D

Fire, Prince, Granny, Symphony, thank you so much. You are way more than kind with your comments and I hope this doesn't sound like false modesty. You see, I have always enjoyed writing for my own pleasure/satisfaction but you guys are telling me I can. Thank you.

Oh, I am doing the primary colors for now so puce may never come. :(

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Originally Posted by ampoule

Oh, I am doing the primary colors for now so puce may never come. :(

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Fret not because someone beat you to it:

Puce skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but puce skies
Do I see

Pucebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but pucebirds
All day long

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When youre in love, my how they fly

Puce days
All of them gone
Nothing but puce skies
From now on...

What a funny bunny.

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Originally Posted by ampoule

What a funny bunny.

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I'm rubber and you're glue...

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

Fret not because someone beat you to it:

Puce skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but puce skies
Do I see

Pucebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but pucebirds
All day long

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When youre in love, my how they fly

Puce days
All of them gone
Nothing but puce skies
From now on...

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This brought up an equally nauseating to me, anyway, color, ecru... Want to try it...? This ought to go on the parody page! Nice, Jerry.

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Originally Posted by Pendragon

This brought up an equally nauseating to me, anyway, color, ecru... Want to try it...? This ought to go on the parody page! Nice, Jerry.

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In Xan-Ecru did Kubla Khan
A variegated palette decree:
Where Yangtze Kuan, the Yellow River, ran
Through Jackson-Pollocklike confusion
Down to a drab, discoloured sea.
So twice five miles of grass-green ground
With polka dots were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with fuschia bells,
Where bloomed many a lime-green leaf;
And here were pin-striped miniature hells,
Enfolding liver-coloured greenery.

Is this what you call hi-jacking a thread? Boy howdy you guys. :( ;)

Hey Ampoule, your colour poems were brilliant! My favourites were brown and orange. I can't wait to hear more!

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Originally Posted by ampoule

Orange

Each day
she watches
them spin into the
hall of echoes, talking
to the air, rushing, rarely
meeting her eye, and if they do,
meet her eye, they do not know it,
passing with blinders, racing for doors
that eat them, leaving artifacts that she
quietly picks up and categorizes in her rolling
reliquary, tubes of Berry Sexy, Red Hot Mama,
calling cards and don't call me cards, breath mints
and chewed gum, tissues and handkerchiefs full of
sweat and snot, coins, combs and coffee stirrers, but
the worst days are the snow days when the city streets
come inside with ice and slush and she can hardly keep up
with the danger and finally they look at her, but with disgust
at her signs of detour, such a bother, but today she is wearing
her hair high on her head in a bouncy ponytail tied up with bright
orange ribbons, her orange sweater and matching shoe laces, and as
they come her way, laying aside her mop, she picks up the cone, the
bright orange pylon, holds it to her mouth and with a toothy smile yells,
WATCH YOUR STEP, WATCH YOUR STEP....watch....your....step....please,
wet floor, I have just mopped the floor, for you, have a great day....please..

amp, November Fourteenth, TwoThousandSeven

This is probably silly but the idea came to me a long time ago because of FifthElement's thread on writing a pylon poem. I was going to post it there but I needed an orange poem. Thanks Fifth. :)

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This is wonderful ampoule, I love the shape (definitely a cone!) and the 'slice of life' tone to it, AND pylon poetry still lives on! Thank you for this :)

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Originally Posted by ampoule

Orange

Each day
she watches
them spin into the
hall of echoes, talking
to the air, rushing, rarely
meeting her eye, and if they do,
meet her eye, they do not know it,
passing with blinders, racing for doors
that eat them, leaving artifacts that she
quietly picks up and categorizes in her rolling
reliquary, tubes of Berry Sexy, Red Hot Mama,
calling cards and don't call me cards, breath mints
and chewed gum, tissues and handkerchiefs full of
sweat and snot, coins, combs and coffee stirrers, but
the worst days are the snow days when the city streets
come inside with ice and slush and she can hardly keep up
with the danger and finally they look at her, but with disgust
at her signs of detour, such a bother, but today she is wearing
her hair high on her head in a bouncy ponytail tied up with bright
orange ribbons, her orange sweater and matching shoe laces, and as
they come her way, laying aside her mop, she picks up the cone, the
bright orange pylon, holds it to her mouth and with a toothy smile yells,
WATCH YOUR STEP, WATCH YOUR STEP....watch....your....step....please,
wet floor, I have just mopped the floor, for you, have a great day....please..

amp, November Fourteenth, TwoThousandSeven

This is probably silly but the idea came to me a long time ago because of FifthElement's thread on writing a pylon poem. I was going to post it there but I needed an orange poem. Thanks Fifth. :)

The picture/poem above is supposed to represent an orange cone, pylon....like this:
http://cleaningsupply.ca/images/suppplies/9100.gif

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Oh Amp, this is marvelous poem which is brilliantly expressed creating a pylon. It's definitely a sort of art which you managed to portray by mingling words. Great work ampoule :thumbs_up

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Originally Posted by ampoule

I think I will begin with the primary colors.

Blue

The blue jay screeches, "GERONIMO!",
as he dives off the branches of my sugar maple,
hitting the heavy head of the sunflower,
splashing seeds all around, and like the kid he is,
climbs high into the tree to do it again and again.

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hey, this is hilarious :lol: now I'm sad because we don't have bluejays here and I'd like to see one do that :)

Black

Black is the canvas, the background
that absorbs my seven deadly colors,
lying prostrate, moaning as they turn,
rising up on cracking elbows, falling
further and further into oblivion, no,
always there, colorless, dark escape.
Were they not once blessings, bending
through your prism, water drop crystals,
suspended over me, spinning goodness
with my fingertip, all my colors poured
out, fireworks cascading in a black sky?
Find where they have fallen to the ground,
collect them with care and bring them
to me, my palette is empty, but ready.

ampoule, December Eighteenth, TwoThousandSeven

I wanted desperately to write about the song, Black Is the Color, one of my very first solos by John Jacob Niles, but this happened instead. Though my version is much slower, I love this fellow's rendition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1lmqO9iT8

Wonderful (as always) anddon't we all wish that we could say on such occasions

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Originally Posted by ampoule

my palette is empty, but ready.

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Black Is the Color: a magnificent song, of course and what about

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

and surely we all have songs poems thoughts abourt blackness in our lives (and hearts!).

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Originally Posted by ampoule

Black

Black is the canvas, the background
that absorbs my seven deadly colors,
lying prostrate, moaning as they turn,
rising up on cracking elbows, falling
further and further into oblivion, no,
always there, colorless, dark escape.
Were they not once blessings, bending
through your prism, water drop crystals,
suspended over me, spinning goodness
with my fingertip, all my colors poured
out, fireworks cascading in a black sky?
Find where they have fallen to the ground,
collect them with care and bring them
to me, my palette is empty, but ready.

ampoule, December Eighteenth, TwoThousandSeven

I wanted desperately to write about the song, Black Is the Color, one of my very first solos by John Jacob Niles, but this happened instead. Though my version is much slower, I love this fellow's rendition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1lmqO9iT8

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I will listen to John Jacob Niles later. I did not want it to detour my perception of this powerful poem. The image of the fireworks falling in shards of color is amazing.

And may I add

Black is the color of my true love's
disdain for me. Our love was green
when it began and all the world
was green to match. Every spear
of grass raised up its hands
in a hosanna to the sun!

Red it became as it went on, red
as bloody, fresh-killed meat!
But something soon began to eat
of our love, something mean
and frightened as the frightened
soon enough turn mean. Green
turned yellow, red
rancid and soon, too soon
it all faded to black.