Cascades
Cascades of color
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In the water falling
Upward,
Inverse spectrums
Dancing
Now violet, blue, green
To red.
Contrasting colors
Painted
On the canvas
Of closed eyes,
Brilliant boats
Sailing
Past the stars
In space and time,
And we, the passengers,
Riding,
Carried along, drifting
Into dreaming.
Where colored emotions
Fall
And rise, defying
The laws of physics.
While Love and Hate
Play
Hide-and-seek in the fall
Of water-colored words.

This was also written for a poetry writing class in the 1980s. At the time, one of my favorite hangouts was a small art museum where I’d sit and veg-out among mostly abstract paintings. I was trying to think of a painting as a poem and a poem as a painting.
KJ said this on August 27, 2009 at 1:34 pm