From Blue to You
I’ve always been your favorite color,
but I’m hers, as well, so your eyes
were a clincher for her. Remember
your first time together, a Chicago blues club?
Yeah, I see a lot of that. Hear it too.
But I saw none of that between the two of you.
No blues there. I didn’t even mind when you went
back to the Windy City for a jazz festival.
She was overcome when you introduced her
to my beauty in that magnificent lake,
when she saw my true depth. And the way
you two looked at those blue skies? Especially
the night sky and your talk of a blue nebula,
your love for each other that seems ever-expanding.
Thank you for that.
This poem is my response to Poetics: True Colors? – the prompt
from Mish at dVerse ~ Poets Pub, which is to write a poem the perspective of a color.
Images
NGC 7023 – The Iris Nebula
© Tony Hallas via Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois (Jay Pritzker Pavilion)
photo taken 02 September 2012
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Bluesy beauty!
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Thank you!
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Very creative to have the color speaking to you and so tender what it says. Nice one, Ken!
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Thank you, Lisa. 🙂
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I had some Delta Blues classics on the turntable when I read this Ken. Your fine work enhance a great horn solo! Thanks.
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It’s all in the timing!
And thanks, Ron.
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This one is a real beauty! 💝💝 I love; “She was overcome when you introduced her to my beauty in that magnificent lake, when she saw my true depth.” 🙂
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Thank you, Sanaa. 🙂
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Such a creative perspective! Loved it!
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🙂 Thanks.
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Blue had the stage here, so wonderful…just speaking off the cuff, bringing back memories and adding his or her own opinions. I think you rocked the prompt giving the color a personality with “I didn’t even mind….” and “when she saw my true depth”.
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Thank you, Mish. Blue does speak to me.
And thanks for the prompt.
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lovely
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Merci!
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I was smiling all the way through reading this. Loved it Ken!
Pat
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Thanks!
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Blue is the color of Love! Well done Ken… Blue has served you very well.
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That it has. Thank you, Dwight.
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Blue is charming from start to finish here. I liked that in the end we see a true blue love that is ever-expanding. 💙
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🙂 Thank you.
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You really personified blue in this poem, Ken! I love the way blue asserts itself into the relationship, and all the different kinds of blue.
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Blue definitely has been a theme in these hearts.
Thank you, Kim.
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Ken, I love how the color was speaking to you as an individual in this poem, rather than as a concept for all of mankind to share. Very intimate.
-David
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Blue as a sort of confidant. Thank you, David.
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Blue is beautiful, it is a component of three of my favorite colors — teal, azure, and cerulean. Wonderful piece Ken!
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Thanks, Rob.
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No blues after such encounter with the color true.
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😀
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Oh … my. That was wonderful, deep and joyful, like an indigo sigh.
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Thank you. 😀
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What a gracious color is blue!
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It certainly has been, here!
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