BlueIris
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Sat Feb-02-08 11:00 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 2/2/08 |
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"Blue"
One day suddenly without warning everyone in the world turned blue not the pale washed-out blue of a summer sky or the gray-blue of old silk but full turquoise bright and hard as a Navajo stone set in silver at first there was a mass panic governments fell commerce collapsed immigration officials went into shock and were found wandering along fortified borders singing snatches of old Lawrence Welk tunes on battlefields all across the planet blue soldiers ran screaming from each other no one knew who to shoot no one knew who to hate the enemy was suddenly beatified gorgeous and familiar as the palm of one's own hand in Brazil three abandoned children from a cardboard favela walked unrecognized through the biggest shopping mall in Rio and were accidentally presented with promotional balloons in Berlin five Turkish families sat on benches in the Zoo for most of the afternoon unnoticed and undisturbed in Miami a Haitian cab driver was inadvertently hired to teach advanced French at an exclusive girls' school as time passed, the confusion deepened landlords had to be sedated real estate agents were found curled in the fetal position around For Sale signs in Chicago alone over 200 loan officers attending a convention at the airport Hilton suddenly took Jesus as their savior but for lovers blueness was a gift the world around them opened up blossoming and blossoming like a great, blue cornflower innocent and strange they lay in each others arms blue lips to blue lips blue breasts to blue breasts making long, blue love and when the blue nights came down at last and the blue sunsets hovered over their beds their blue laughter could be heard as soft as silver bells as they whispered to each other those magic words: azure cobalt indigo lobelia gentian aqua.
—Mary Mackey
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Sat Feb-02-08 11:02 AM
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Sat Feb-02-08 11:05 AM
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Edited on Sat Feb-02-08 11:06 AM by RainDog
I love the chain of incidents... reminds me the way Run Lola Run and Amelie played off the old chaos example of a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil makes the Great Wall of China fall, or another more personal event.
edit because I need to preview because the words in my mind are faster than my fingers...
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Sat Feb-02-08 11:09 AM
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3. That is an awesome fantasy. |
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:)
I wouldn't mind being blue if it could be so.
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BlueIris
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Sat Feb-02-08 03:14 PM
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this one inspires me. Thanks.
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BlueIris
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Sat Feb-02-08 04:30 PM
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7. Aw, Tuesday is inspired! |
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Sat Feb-02-08 11:37 PM
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9. inspired but not prolific |
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Sat Feb-02-08 03:35 PM
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Ahhhhhhhhh....
Beautiful!
Thank you...
:hug:
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