Sieve (haiku)

 

joyfully I stretch

arms wide to catch the sunrise

dark mind disappears

Colours

Heliotrope is a colour,

It’s also a flower.

Orange is a colour,

It’s also a fruit.

 

Avocado is a colour,

It’s also delicious.

Taupe is a colour,

It’s not delicious.

 

Icterine is a colour, sort of.

A bird can be Icterine,

But it can’t be just a colour.

French Raspberry is a colour,

Birds eat raspberries.

 

Moccasin is a colour,

It’s also a snake, and a shoe.

Skobeloff is a colour,

It’s a spring green.

Snakes breed in spring.

 

Zaffre is a colour,

In powdered glass – behold the Ming vase.

Wenge is a colour,

It’s also a dark timber.

Sweet song of the Dulcimer.

 

Without colour there’s no light,

Or maybe the other way ‘round.

Chromatography, Colorimetry or Colour Science –

The study of colour.

Rods and cones perceive the light,

I just enjoy the view.