BLUE: The Color Of Longing

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 41

We are dabbling with Erasure Poetry this week – call it White Out or Black Out as you please.

Erasure is a form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem.^[1] The results can be allowed to stand in situ or they can be arranged into lines and/or stanzas.

BLUE: The Color Of Longing

The world is blue at its edges 

and in its depths

blue that gets lost

never travels the 

whole distance

from the sun to us

blue that got lost

blue that does not reach us

gives color to the colorless water

purer the water 

the deeper the blue

at the horizon

the blue land

seems to be

dissolving in the blue sky

the blue

at the farthest

reaches the places

where you see for miles

deeper

dreamier

melancholy blue

the blue 

color of distance

the blue

which does not touch us

does not travel the whole distance

is the beauty of the world

so much of which is 

in the color blue.

blue 

at the far edge 

of

what can be seen

the color of the horizon

of remote mountain ranges

of anything

far away

color of emotion

the color of

solitude and desire

the color

where you can never go

for

the blue is not

at the horizon

but in the atmospheric distance

between you and the mountains

the color of

longings

for the distance

you never arrive in,

For the blue world

~Indira