Blue
I want to steal the word “blue”
into every poem I write
the way a Hopi weaves a signature
with a bead outside the pattern
I want to leave a kernel of its clarity
in every verse I compose
study its contradictions
and versatility
One day blue is sad
the next, the sky is filled with it
winners strive for it
babies babble it
purple is another
version of it
Picasso had a blue period
casting all his subjects in its mood
singers sing the blues
not to wallow in melodrama
but because they want
to tell the truth
Mostly blue is cool
like Cher’s son’s middle name
my favorite Joni Mitchell album
or the second full moon
in a romantic summer month
I want to shock the world with indigo
invent new blue slang
drop its name in conversation
wear all shades of it
Delicate or bold
dignified or casual
the beat is just right
it’s easy to rhyme
blue is an attitude
~ Colleen Redman 2001
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September 25th, 2012 3:28 pm
nice…blue is such an intriguing color..all the shades…sky, ocean…and yes…the blues of course…def. music in this..
September 25th, 2012 3:44 pm
Blue, it is just so many things to so many people and you grab most of them here. Blue is definitely an attitude and you capture that well.
September 25th, 2012 5:22 pm
I love blue, too… it symbolizes so much as well as being beautiful.
September 25th, 2012 5:30 pm
you make blue cool….ha…and shock the world for sure…love all the references as well to blue….i am in lets blue…
September 25th, 2012 5:50 pm
I love it!!
September 25th, 2012 6:07 pm
I like the attitude of blue ~ Nicely layered with all things blue and indigo ~
September 25th, 2012 7:53 pm
Glad you are in the blue these days.
September 25th, 2012 8:15 pm
Looks as if the Blue Shovel has found a Blue Pail.
Anyone reading that comment will be scratching their head.
September 25th, 2012 9:23 pm
Wonderful. And what about Giotto? Blue stretches so far and wide – you’ve captured a lot of that. k.
September 25th, 2012 9:29 pm
Blue is an attitude…loved seeing one of Picasso’s beautiful paintings from his blue period in Chicago. Love this poem.
September 26th, 2012 5:28 am
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this Poem, Colleen…! And I Love “BLUE”, too!
September 26th, 2012 6:41 am
Blue is cool to me too.
September 26th, 2012 6:48 am
Nice poem, well written. Forgot to mention that. Got carried away by the lines. 🙂
September 26th, 2012 12:21 pm
This should help 🙂
Chidgikux.-Aleut
Qeyughalnguq/suughneghílnguq-Siberian yupik
Qezuqliq-Alaskan yupik
Sungauraaqtaaq/Sillagiksaaq-inupiaq
Sungaaqtaq/Hungaaqtaq/Tunguqtuq-West inuktitun
Tungujuqtuq-East inuktitut
Tungujurtuq-Kalaallisut
Tunguurtuq-East Kalaattisit
Afrikaans: blou
Albanian: kaltërt
Arabic: اللون الأزرق
Bosnian: plava f.
Breton: glas
Catalan: blau m.
Chinese: 蓝色 (lánsè)
Croatian: plava f.
Czech: modř f., modrá barva
Danish: blå
Dutch: blauw n.
Esperanto: blu
Estonian: sinine
Finnish: sininen, sini
French: bleu m.
German: Blau n.
Greek: γαλάζιο (ghalázio), γαλανό (ghalanó), μπλε (ble), κυανό (kianó), γλαυκό (ghlafkó)
Hawaiian: polū
Hebrew: כחול (kakhól)
Hindi: नीला (nīlā)
Hungarian: kék
Icelandic: blár, himinblámi
Indonesian: biru, warna langit cerah
Irish: gorm
Italian: (dark blue) blu m.; (sky blue) azzurro m.
Japanese: 青 (あお, ao)
Korean: (blue) 파랑 (parang), 파란색 (paransæk),
(sky blue) 하늘색 (haneulsæk),
(indigo or dark blue) 남색 [藍色] (namsæk), 남빛 (nambit), 쪽빛 (jjokbit),
(ultra marine) 군청 [群靑] (guncheong), 군청색 [群靑色] (guncheongsæk), 남청색 [藍靑色] (namcheongsæk) Kurdish (Sorani): شین (sheen)
Latin: caerulus
Latvian: zils
Lithuanian: mėlynumas, žydrumas
Lojban: blanu
Macedonian: сина (sina)
Malay: biru ms(ms)
Malayalam: നീല (neela)
Maltese: blu; (sky blue) ikħal; (azure) iżraq
Norwegian: blåfarge, (himmelens) blå
Persian: آبی (ābi)
Polish: niebieski m., błękit (sky blue) m.
Portuguese: azul m.
Romanian: albastru
Russian: синий (sínij, navy blue), голубой (golubój, sky blue)
Scottish Gaelic: gorm
Serbian:
– Cyrillic: плава f.
– Roman: plava f.
Slovak: modrá (e.g., berlínska modrá)
Slovene: modra f.
Spanish: azul, (light blue) celeste
Swahili: bluu
Swedish: blå
Telugu: నీలము (niilamu)
Turkish: mavi
Urdu: نیلا neela (m), نیلى neeli (f)
Vietnamese: (màu) xanh (blue or green), xanh lam
Welsh: glas cy(cy)
West Frisian: blau
Source(s):
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blue#Noun
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/b…