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CAPTURE COLOURS IN WORDS: POETRY
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I WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON THE MOST WONDERFUL POETRY
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Have you ever heard of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams ? Well, I have and you will. Both American poets were fascinated by abstract-everyday-things and colours. Their poetry shows a certain respect for the things we all deal with every day but never really notice.
I have learned a great deal from these modern poets and I would like to share some of the beauty of their poetry with you. I must say I admire both Stevens as well as Williams so I dedicate this page to them.
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DISILLUSIONMENT OF TEN O'CLOCK (by Wallace Stevens)
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The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
Or green with yellow rings,
Or yellow with blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are nor going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches tigers
In red weather.
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THIS IS JUST TO SAY (by William Carlos Williams)
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I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold.
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