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
The blue that gets lost
never travels the
whole distance
from the sun to us
the blue that got lost
the 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 of 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 mountains
the color of
longings
for the distance
you never arrive in,
For the blue world
~Indira
