Ultramarine Blue
Pick up something that is one color—any color—-stare at it a while, and try to remember the first time you saw it; maybe fell in love with it; fought for it at the kindergarten craft table; forced open a Crayon box to make sure it was really in there; found it influencing a decision about clothing, make-up or home decor; gravitated to it while making a design; found it completing an idea; startled by getting it as a gift; amazed that it expressed an emotion; noticed it influenced the mood of an event; or perhaps you saw this color in a painting that showed it off at its height, as I did.
Lapis Lazuli
costly Ultramarine blue
a luminous love
beyond centuries
Vermeer lavished this gold
though mired in debt
Without regret
I attended his soiree
and danced with midnight
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It’s beautiful the way the imagery in your poem matures from the “kindergarten craft table” to a midnight soirée. This is a poem to revel in!
Thank you so much for these comments—they mean a lot! So agonizing to “haiku”such a long story to short lines—try looking at “The girl with the Pearl earrings” for an Ultramarine thrill….
–The title is actually: Girl With a Pearl Earring
Nicely done Ann, note that I wrote a ‘blue’ poem today as well. Mine is a country reminisce.
Thanks Jess—thanks so much for your support!
Commanding directive that I intend to follow.
Wow, wow, wow–
Pick up something that is one color—any color—-stare at it a while, and try to remember the first time you saw it; maybe fell in love with it; fought for it at the kindergarten craft table; forced open a Crayon box to make sure it was really in there…
So glad to hear that!—I started to do that within the poem I put on LexPoMo a few days ago “Consider the color “Red” for instance”—recalling lucid moments where color registered with me vividly—and I am moving erratically around doing that jotting notes here and there—the recollections will just come to you…have fun.