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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
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Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2011-01-16 12:04 PM



ORANGE AND BROWN
15 January 2011

What is it about
sun-orange
and
milk-chocolate brown
that does
something strangely magnified -
for my intense glorification
of colours that dance?

Owl

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The_Doctors_Angel_32
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since 2011-01-14
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1 posted 2011-01-16 12:10 PM


I love your description of these colors. I think of chocolate too when I see brown, but of course I am a chocoholic. LOL

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faithmairee
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since 2011-01-05
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Poe Haven, USA
2 posted 2011-01-16 12:54 PM


I love them, also.  You have such a wonderful way with words.  I enjoyed this one a lot!

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
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Durban, South Africa
3 posted 2011-01-16 01:39 AM


Thank you, Julie.  Colours speak, sing and shout to me.  I notice them everywhere, delight in them and wrap them all around me.

Thank you, Faith for your kind words.  You have made my day!

Owl

JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30
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4 posted 2011-01-16 07:29 AM


I know a man who lives close by who says that he sees colors in words, that each word is a color. That hasn't one thing to do with this poem except for the fact it is about colors.

I have to admit that orange/milk chocolate brown gives me a warm feeling.

~ Why Do Gorillas Have Big Nostrils? / Because They Have Big Fingers. ~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
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Durban, South Africa
5 posted 2011-01-16 02:42 PM


Jerry, what you said about the man who sees words as colours, I actually think has everything to do with the poem.  It is his way of celebrating colours, different from mine, but nevertheless, the same appreciation.  I can understand what he means, although I don't see words as colours, myself.  

I have, however, always seen numbers in a linear position in mid-air, each having its own very particular spot with a gentle corner on 10 and a sharp one on 20 and the subsequent numbers just rising higher in the air in an otherwise straight line.

Owl

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