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Thread: Colour Blind

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    Default Colour Blind

    If you can see the sepia in the sun
    Shades of grey in the fading streets
    The radiating bloodshot of a child's eye
    The dark stains on her linen sheets
    If you can see oil seperate on water
    The turquoise of leaves on trees
    The reddened flush of your lover's cheeks
    The Violet peace of calmed seas

    If you can see the bluest eye
    The purple in the petals of the rose
    The blue anger, the venom, of the volcano
    The creeping orange of the larva flows
    If you can see the red dust of the famished road
    The white air strike of the Nike's sign
    If you can see the skin tone of a Lucien Freud
    The colours of his frozen subject mime.

    If you can see the white mist of the oasis
    The red, white and blue that you defended
    If you can see it all through the blackest pupil
    The colours stretching, the rainbow suspended
    If you can see the breached blue of the evening
    And the caramel curls in the swirls of your tea
    Why is it you are colour blind
    When you see me??

    By Lemn Sissay
    Some people are like Slinkies. They're really good for nothing. But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

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    Default Colourblind

    That's beautiful - thank you for posting it.

    I read it a couple of times and the words really are lovely .
    Must look up this poet - new to me

    Trinkie

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    I had never heard of this poet either till I was reading a book about adoption(from the childs point of view), it certainly makes you think.


    The fact that there had been quite a lot of discussions on here recently about racism was the main reason I decided to post it.
    Some people are like Slinkies. They're really good for nothing. But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

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    Very true it's so sad that so many only see in black and white with shades of grey.

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