Thursday, September 16, 2010

How are sound, color and scent accomplished in a poem?

Words are sound awaiting activation. Timbre is color. What is the measure of scent? Is it seasonal? Is it topical?




Scent and color are inherent in food. And sound? Equally represented in the preparing, cooking, and the eating.
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  1. SusanSeptember 22, 2010 at 1:24 PM

    Too Tall


    evening out the stripes

    she asked for tonic and a lime

    the fatal warmth of danger

    left the soil another color

    similar pounds of perfume

    sent by schooner to the isles

    one must land at another hour

    to a wharf inflamed with sin

    Now don't go early she was warned

    no music to start the party

    but obey she cannot and so does go

    her fortune in a plate of paprika

    a lass who leaves no one cold

    would never be seen again

    yet down by the shore

    the spices sing of her

    sharp and sweet, the

    very trace of her

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