I like the fact you have stayed true to your own colour Cynthia..I for one was captured :)

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Just caught up with this one Cynthia. A fascinating read. I like poetry that is 'scientific' in tone and full of facts.

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Harry, your comment on 'Considering Colour' is excellent, and I fully take your point. My aim was to steer completely clear of poetic 'values/imagery' and write something which bends the cold scientific terms into a versed/turned form full of cadence, out of the paragraph/caption genre into a more friendly eye-structure. Textbooks can be very intimidating. I'm still quite pleased with the effort; the facts might actually be remembered. THUS SPAKE CYNTHIA! Hahahaha.

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Hello Cynth
Thanks for Twice Bless`d

Thinking on this:
Lots of the discoveries of science are marvellous (genes etc;) but we`ve all got so used to praising them in the terms the scientists use that they read dully. Alan Morrison in his poem `Aloneness` gives a description of `a hand` which approaches a wondering, poetic way of telling (and using)a scientific truth. Both poetry - and science - would benefit if we could do more of it.

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I thought I would be embarrassed by rereading this today; but - I'm NOT! It's actually very interesting, and I like it.

Philipos, I sent you a 'personal' reply. Thanks for reading.

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Hi Cynthia, this is quite an essay on colours were you motivated to write this in the light of a recent TV programme which focused on the topic?

Language was found to be an interesting starting point remembering that some tongues failed to identify certain colours though others could.

I seem to remember when studying aspects of colour in yesteryear that some African tribes had over a dozen descriptive words for different shades of brown.

Your poem certainly left few stones unturned. Well done.

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This bombed in Sale - my own bad judgment. But I can't let it go yet. Should I have got the message?

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